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YEAR 2138
Tibetan Calendar 2011
DEAR READER,
We wish you good physical and spiritual health for this year,
and may you spend each day of this year in a wholesome
way.
May the Teachings of the Buddha, the true source of peace
and happiness for all, spread throughout the world.
May the Holders of the Teachings live long and may their
activities flourish.
May all hunger, thirst, disease, and conflict - may all
suffering perish and all beings experience harmony and
peace of mind.
May Compassion and Wisdom grow everywhere!
is pleasant there will always be a restless longing for something
THE MEANING OF BUDDHISM else, which prevents any lasting peace and happiness from finding
by Geshe Rabten its way into our lives.
However, if this self-concern is decreased, hatred and attachment
will likewise diminish in strength. And to the degree in which these
factors are reduced we will notice an increase in our concern for
others, as well as an increase in our own contentment and peace
of mind.
Buddhism is neither a strange tradition peculiar to certain foreign Where can the means be found to transform the mind in this way?
lands, nor a collection of dry words contained in books and They can be found in the Buddha’s teachings. Thus the methods
libraries. Such opinions fail to discern what in fact Buddhism is. shown by the Buddha are extremely valuable for anyone truly
seeking happiness, whether Buddhist or not. Buddhism should
All creatures in this world, whether human or animal, are constantly therefore be understood as a method for overcoming mental
motivated by the same basic aims: the achievement of happiness suffering and for increasing the sense of well-being for both self
and the removal of suffering. But although our entire existence is and others.
lived in pursuit of these goals we never fully achieve them. The
real, lasting happiness we desire eludes us and in the depths of We all know how much we appreciate being treated kindly by
our minds we continue to suffer. In our search for satisfaction we others. In the same way it should be realised that others too
construct roads, schools, hospitals and so forth. Although these experience much joy upon being treated kindly by us. When
afford us some relief they are unable to remove the very roots concern for others grows strong, self-concern, hatred and
of physical and mental pain. On the contrary, we observe how attachment will diminish, one’s mind will experience calmness
mental unrest tends to increase with technological progress. But and joy, and others will receive true benefit. All conflicts between
why, despite our enormous efforts, should this be the case? individuals, groups of people, and even nations will be resolved as
soon as concern for others takes the place of concern for oneself.
We generally consider the source of all our problems to be
external to ourselves. We then try to overcome and manipulate Concern for others is therefore the source of all individual and
these conditions. Of course, external conditions affect our lives collective well-being, both secular and religious. To achieve this is
and cause us to suffer, but it has to be recognised that the root the essence of Buddhism.
cause for our painful experiences is deeply embedded within
our own minds. The external situations are only contributing
circumstances. In this light it becomes clear that no matter how
much we change the external world we will never arrive at a truly
satisfactory solution. With these words the activities of the Rabten Choeling monastery
were announced in 1977 by the Venerable Geshe Rabten
But what is it within us that causes us to continually suffer? It is Rinpoche. And with this objective the activities of all the Rabten
self-concern, the attitude of cherishing oneself while disregarding monasteries and study centres, as well as the Edition Rabten
others. In dependence upon self-concern attachment to one’s own publishing service have been carried on since then.
interest and resentment to the interests of others arise. Upon this
basis all conflicts ensue. If, however, self-concern were absent, If you see a true benefit in such efforts for today’s society and
no conflicts could ever occur. As long as the mind is dominated would like to support these aims, please be assured that your help
by self-concern we shall never be satisfied. Even if our situation is greatly appreciated.
DHARMA FESTIVALS ་་་་་ ASTROLOGICAL YEAR-SIGNS AND DAYS
་་ ་་ ་་་་་་་་་་
Chotrul Duechen: Day of Buddha Shakyamuni‘s Great
Miracles In Tibetan astrology the days of the week are classified
into harmonious and disharmonious days according to an
Saga Dawa: This means ‚Month of Saga‘, which is the fourth
month of the lunar calendar. On the full moon day of this individual‘s year of birth. So-called Luck-days and Life-days
month, Buddha Shakyamuni showed his deed of taking birth, are harmonious. These days are generally considered as
attaining enlightenment, and going into Parinirvana. particularly suitable for starting projects and celebrating
auspicious events. Anti-days, or disharmonious days, are
Choekor Duechen: Buddha Shakyamuni turned the Wheel
of Dharma for the first time. generally considered as unsuitable for such events. It is
something to be considered in case of choice.
Lha Bab Duechen: Buddha Shakyamuni‘s return from the
realm of the devas. Year of birth: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
་་ 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Gaden Ngamchoe: Day of Je Tsongkhapa‘s Parinirvana. 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
Parinirvana days: The days of passing away. 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Trungkar days: Birthdays of masters. Year-sign: Mouse Bull Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake
་་ ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
Those days are very special days for the practice of Dharma.
Any positive or negative actions performed on these days Luck-day Wed Sat Thu Thu Sun Tue
་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
have a strong multiplying effect.
Life-day Tue Wed Sat Sat Wed Fri
་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
Anti-day Sat Thu Fri Fri Thu Wed
TIBETAN FESTIVALS ་་་་་ ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
Losar: Tibetan New Year. First day of the lunar calendar. It is
celebrated in every auspicious and joyous way. Year of birth: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Zam Ling Chi Sang: Day of the Sang-Offering (ritual smoke- ་་ 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
offering) to all the Protectors. 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Sangpo Chuzom: The Day of the Ten Good Omens. 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
This is a day for transforming all inauspicious situations into 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
auspicious ones. Special day for merrymaking.
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Year-sign: Horse
་ Sheep
་ Monkey
་ Rooster
་ Dog
་ Boar
་
་་
Luck-day Tue Fri Fri Fri Mon Wed
SPECIAL DAYS ་་་་་་ ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
་་ Rishi-Star: This special astrological constellation causes the Life-day Fri Mon Thu Thu Wed Tue
natural water-sources on earth to be transformed into nectar- ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
like liquids. It is therefore particularly beneficial to take baths
on these days. Anti-day Wed Thu Tue Tue Thu Sat
་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
SYMBOLS ་་་་ ELEMENT COMBINATIONS
Earth-Earth: Auspicious.
Full Moon ་ The double encounter of earth brings power together.
Power lets all wishes be achieved.
Half Moon ་ ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
New or Black Moon ་ Water-Water: Auspicious.
The double encounter of water brings nectar together.
Total eclipse of the sun ་་་་ Nectar increases life‘s force.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Partial eclipse of the sun ་་་་
Total eclipse of the moon ་་་་ Earth-Water: Auspicious.
The encounter of earth with water brings youth together.
Partial eclipse of the moon ་་་་ Youth brings great happiness.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Monastic Sojong or Confession ་་
Fire-Fire: Auspicious.
Guru-Puja and Tsok-Rituals ་་་་ The double encounter of fire brings increase together.
Dharma festivals ་་་་ This will increase food and wealth.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Tibetan festivals ་་་་
Wind-Wind: Auspicious.
The double encounter of wind brings perfection together.
Perfection brings quick accomplishment of one‘s wishes.
THE ENERGY OF ELEMENTS ་་་་ ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Earth
་ Fire-Wind: Auspicious.
The encounter of fire and wind brings strength together.
Water
་ Strength brings all good omens.
་ ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Fire
་ Earth-Wind: Inauspicious.
Wind The encounter of earth and wind brings incompatibility.
Incompatibility exhausts food and wealth.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
In Tibetan astrology the energies of the four elements, earth, water,
fire and wind, are described to influence our days. It is either the Water-Wind: Inauspicious.
The encounter of water and wind brings disharmony
double strength of one element or the union of two elements that
together. Disharmony separates friends.
predominates. According to the compatible or incompatible nature of ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
the elements the days will be auspicious or inauspicious for particular
activities. It is something to be considered in case of choice. Earth-Fire: Inauspicious.
The encounter of earth and fire brings burning together.
Burning creates suffering.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Fire-Water: Inauspicious.
The encounter of fire and water brings death. Death robs
life away.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
January 2011 ་་ ༡༡ - ་་ ༡ ་་
1 Sat New Year
27
2 Sun
28
3 Mon
29
4 Tue
30
5 Wed
1
6 Thu Epiphany
2
7 Fri
3
8 Sat
4
9 Sun
5
10 Mon
6
11 Tue
7
12 Wed
8
13 Thu
9
14 Fri
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15 Sat
11
16 Sun
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17 Mon
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18 Tue
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19 Wed
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20 Thu
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21 Fri
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22 Sat
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23 Sun
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24 Mon
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25 Tue
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26 Wed
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27 Thu
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28 Fri
25
29 Sat
26
30 Sun
27
31 Mon
28
February 2011 ་་ ༡ ་་ - ་་ ༡༢
1 Tue
29
2 Wed
30
3 Thu
1
4 Fri
2
5 Sat
2
6 Sun
3
7 Mon
4
8 Tue
5
9 Wed
6
10 Thu
7
11 Fri
8
12 Sat
9
13 Sun
10
14 Mon
11
15 Tue
12
16 Wed
13
17 Thu
14
18 Fri
15
19 Sat
16
20 Sun
17
21 Mon
19
22 Tue
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23 Wed
21
24 Thu
22
25 Fri
23
26 Sat
24
27 Sun
25
28 Mon
26
March 2011 ་་ ༡༢ - ་་ ༡
1 Tue
27
2 Wed
28
3 Thu Thanksgiving to Dharma-Protectors
་། 29
4 Fri
30
5 Sat Tibetan New Year
་། 1
6 Sun
2
7 Mon
3
8 Tue
4
9 Wed
5
10 Thu
5
11 Fri
6
12 Sat
7
13 Sun
8
14 Mon
9
15 Tue
10
16 Wed
11
17 Thu
13
18 Fri
14
19 Sat Buddha’s Great Miracles
་་་། 15
20 Sun
16
21 Mon
17
22 Tue Kyabje Rabten Parinirvana
་་་་་། 18
23 Wed
19
24 Thu
20
25 Fri
21
26 Sat
22
27 Sun
23
28 Mon
24
29 Tue
25
30 Wed
26
31 Thu
27
April 2011 ་་ ༡ - ་་ ༢
1 Fri
28
2 Sat
29
3 Sun
30
4 Mon
1
5 Tue
2
6 Wed
3
7 Thu
4
8 Fri
5
9 Sat
6
10 Sun
7
11 Mon
8
12 Tue
9
13 Wed
10
14 Thu
11
15 Fri
12
16 Sat
13
17 Sun
14
18 Mon
15
19 Tue
16
20 Wed
18
21 Thu
19
22 Fri Good Friday
20
23 Sat
21
24 Sun Easter
22
25 Mon
23
26 Tue
24
27 Wed
25
28 Thu
26
29 Fri
27
30 Sat
28
May 2011 ་་ ༢ - ་་ ༣
1 Sun
29
2 Mon
29
3 Tue
30
4 Wed
1
5 Thu
2
6 Fri
3
7 Sat
4
8 Sun
5
9 Mon
6
10 Tue
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11 Wed
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12 Thu
9
13 Fri
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14 Sat
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15 Sun
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16 Mon
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17 Tue
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18 Wed
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19 Thu
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20 Fri
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21 Sat
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22 Sun
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23 Mon
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24 Tue
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25 Wed
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26 Thu
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27 Fri
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28 Sat
26
29 Sun
27
30 Mon
28
31 Tue
29
June 2011 ་་ ༣ - ་་ ༤
1 Wed
30
2 Thu Great Lamrim Teachings
✽
1
3 Fri ✽
2
4 Sat ✽
3
5 Sun ✽
4
6 Mon ✽
5
7 Tue ✽
6
8 Wed ✽
7
9 Thu ✽
8
10 Fri ✽
9
11 Sat ✽
10
12 Sun Whitsun
✽
11
13 Mon ✽
12
14 Tue ✽
14
15 Wed ✽ Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment, Parinirvana
་་་། 15
16 Thu ✽
16
17 Fri ✽
17
18 Sat ✽
18
19 Sun ✽
19
20 Mon ✽
20
21 Tue ✽
21
22 Wed ✽
22
23 Thu ✽
23
24 Fri ✽
24
25 Sat ✽
24
26 Sun ✽
25
27 Mon ✽
26
28 Tue ✽
27
29 Wed ✽
28
30 Thu ✽
29
July 2011 ་་ ༤ - ་་
1 Fri ✽
30
2 Sat ✽
1
3 Sun ✽
2
4 Mon
3
5 Tue
4
6 Wed H.H. Dalai Lama birthday
་་་་་། 5
7 Thu
7
8 Fri
8
9 Sat
9
10 Sun
10
11 Mon
11
12 Tue
12
13 Wed
13
14 Thu
14
15 Fri Offering to all Protectors
་་་། 15
16 Sat
16
17 Sun
17
18 Mon
18
19 Tue
19
20 Wed
20
21 Thu
21
22 Fri
22
23 Sat
23
24 Sun
24
25 Mon
25
26 Tue
26
27 Wed
27
28 Thu
28
29 Fri
29
30 Sat
30
31 Sun
1
August 2011 ་་ ༦ - ་་ ༧
1 Mon
2
2 Tue
3
3 Wed Buddha’s first turning of the Dharma-Wheel
་་་། 4
4 Thu
5
5 Fri
6
6 Sat
7
7 Sun
8
8 Mon
10
9 Tue
11
10 Wed
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11 Thu
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12 Fri
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13 Sat
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14 Sun
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15 Mon
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16 Tue
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17 Wed
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18 Thu
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19 Fri
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20 Sat
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21 Sun
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22 Mon
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23 Tue
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24 Wed
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25 Thu
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26 Fri
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27 Sat
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28 Sun
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29 Mon
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30 Tue
1
31 Wed
3
September 2011 ་་ ༧ - ་་ ༨
1 Thu
4
2 Fri
5
3 Sat
6
4 Sun
7
5 Mon
8
6 Tue
9
7 Wed
10
8 Thu
11
9 Fri Karma Rishi
་། 12
10 Sat Karma Rishi
་། 13
11 Sun Karma Rishi
་། 14
12 Mon Karma Rishi
་། 15
13 Tue Karma Rishi
་། 16
14 Wed Karma Rishi
་། 17
15 Thu Karma Rishi
་། 18
16 Fri
19
17 Sat
20
18 Sun
21
19 Mon
22
20 Tue
23
21 Wed
24
22 Thu
25
23 Fri
26
24 Sat
27
25 Sun
28
26 Mon
29
27 Tue
30
28 Wed
1
29 Thu
2
30 Fri
3
October 2011 ་་ ༨ - ་་ ༩
1 Sat
4
2 Sun
6
3 Mon
7
4 Tue
8
5 Wed
9
6 Thu
10
7 Fri
11
8 Sat
12
9 Sun
13
10 Mon
14
11 Tue
15
12 Wed
16
13 Thu
16
14 Fri
17
15 Sat Trijang Choktul birthday
18
16 Sun
19
17 Mon
20
18 Tue
21
19 Wed
22
20 Thu
23
21 Fri
24
22 Sat
25
23 Sun
26
24 Mon
27
25 Tue
29
26 Wed
30
27 Thu
1
28 Fri
2
29 Sat
3
30 Sun
4
31 Mon
5
November 2011 ་་ ༩ - ་་ ༡༠
1 Tue All Saints
6
2 Wed
7
3 Thu
8
4 Fri Rabten Choktul birthday
9
5 Sat
10
6 Sun
11
7 Mon Kyabje Trijang Parinirvana
་་་་་། 12
8 Tue
13
9 Wed
14
10 Thu
15
11 Fri
16
12 Sat
17
13 Sun
18
14 Mon
19
15 Tue
20
16 Wed
21
17 Thu Buddha’s return from deva-land
་་་། 22
18 Fri Ling Choktul birthday
23
19 Sat
24
20 Sun
25
21 Mon
26
22 Tue
27
23 Wed
28
24 Thu
29
25 Fri
30
26 Sat
1
27 Sun
3
28 Mon
4
29 Tue
5
30 Wed
6
December 2011 ་་ ༡༠ - ་་ ༡༡
1 Thu
7
2 Fri
8
3 Sat
9
4 Sun
10
5 Mon
10
6 Tue
11
7 Wed
12
8 Thu
13
9 Fri
14
10 Sat
15
11 Sun
16
12 Mon
17
13 Tue
18
14 Wed
19
15 Thu
20
16 Fri Kyabje Ling Parinirvana
་་་་། 21
17 Sat
22
18 Sun
23
19 Mon
24
20 Tue Tsongkhapa Parinirvana
་་་། 25
21 Wed
27
22 Thu
28
23 Fri
29
24 Sat
30
25 Sun Christmas Day
1
26 Mon
2
27 Tue
3
28 Wed
4
29 Thu
5
30 Fri Ten Good Omens
་་་། 6
31 Sat
7
January 2012 ་་ ༡༡ - ་་ ༡༢
1 Sun New Year
8
2 Mon
9
3 Tue
10
4 Wed
11
5 Thu
12
6 Fri Epiphany
13
7 Sat
13
8 Sun
14
9 Mon
15
10 Tue
16
11 Wed
17
12 Thu
18
13 Fri
19
14 Sat
21
15 Sun
22
16 Mon
23
17 Tue
24
18 Wed
25
19 Thu
26
20 Fri
27
21 Sat
28
22 Sun
29
23 Mon
30
24 Tue
1
25 Wed
2
26 Thu
3
27 Fri
4
28 Sat
5
29 Sun
6
30 Mon
7
31 Tue
8
February 2012 ་་ ༡༢ - ་་ ༡
1 Wed
9
2 Thu
10
3 Fri
11
4 Sat
12
5 Sun
13
6 Mon
14
7 Tue
15
8 Wed
16
9 Thu
17
10 Fri
18
11 Sat
19
12 Sun
20
13 Mon
21
14 Tue
22
15 Wed
23
16 Thu
24
17 Fri
26
18 Sat
27
19 Sun
28
20 Mon Thanksgiving to Dharma-Protectors
་། 29
21 Tue
30
22 Wed Tibetan New Year
་། 1
23 Thu
2
24 Fri
3
25 Sat
4
26 Sun
5
27 Mon
5
28 Tue
6
29 Wed
7
March 2012 ་་ ༡ - ་་ ༢
1 Thu
8
2 Fri
9
3 Sat
10
4 Sun
11
5 Mon
12
6 Tue
13
7 Wed
14
8 Thu Buddha’s Great Miracles
་་་། 15
9 Fri
16
10 Sat
17
11 Sun Kyabje Rabten Parinirvana
་་་་་། 18
12 Mon
20
13 Tue
21
14 Wed
22
15 Thu
23
16 Fri
24
17 Sat
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18 Sun
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19 Mon
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20 Tue
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21 Wed
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22 Thu
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23 Fri
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24 Sat
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25 Sun
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26 Mon
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27 Tue
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28 Wed
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29 Thu
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31 Sat
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