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59. A Tibetan Almanac for 1906-1907 (ERT A 11) —By 
ManAmanopapuyAya Satis Coanpra Vipydpadgana, M.A., M.R.A.S. 
I got a copy of a Tibetan Almanac for 1906-1907 ! pre- 
pared by a learned Mongolian Lama living in Tibet a little to the 
north-east of Lhasa. It is replete with figures indicating con- 
stellations, stars, lunar mansions, auspicious and inauspicious 
te., calculated according to the combined method of the 
Indian and Chinese astrologies. The Tibetans, like the Chinese, 
make the lunar year agree with the solar. The current lunar 
year, which consists of only 354 days, began on the 24th Febru- 
vail, The rich will satisfy their hunger at the expense of the poor. 
The solar eclipse that is due on the 14th January, 
continue from 10-30 a.m. to 3p,m. There will be two lunar 
eclipses, one on the 4th August, 1906, and the other on the aoe 
January, 1907, both commencing at sunset and continuing for 
nearly four hours. 
The earth will quake thrice. T 
take place on the 12th May, 1906, the second on t 
ber, 1906, and the third on the 13th March, 1907. 
e sun will commence turning towards the south on a 
Ist July, 1906,2 and will return towards the north on the 30t 
December, 1906. 
The solar and lunar days not being ¢ 
other, some days are “ cut off i BAI y and “some again“ 
“eel 3 i Imost 
retained as “excess ” or “ superfluous ( SATA A} 
A 
he first earthquake will 
he 7th Novem- 
o-extensive with each 
‘every month of the Tibetan year. re 
ideas geome ask 
1 ‘This copy of the Tibetan Almanac for 1906-1907 was par by me 
for Dr. E. D. Ross from a Tibetan Lama at Darjeeling in June : 
2 Vide the note on Summer and Winter Solstices at the end. 
