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Zanshin Calendar

Tibetan and Japanese calendars with almanac readings, and a meditation timer

Android · v2.6 · Iverlein

About Zanshin Calendar

Zanshin Calendar shows one day at a time in the Tibetan calendar or in the old Japanese calendar (旧暦), with the almanac readings that belong to that day, and sunrise, solar noon and sunset for your place. A meditation timer and a mindfulness bell come with it.

Tibetan calendar, Phugpa (ཕུག་པ, phug pa)

Lunar day, month and year, with skipped and doubled days and leap months

Festivals: Losar (ལོ་གསར, lo gsar), Chötrul Düchen (ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་དུས་ཆེན, cho 'phrul dus chen), Saga Dawa Düchen (ས་ག་ཟླ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན, sa ga zla ba'i dus chen), Chökhor Düchen (ཆོས་འཁོར་དུས་ཆེན, chos 'khor dus chen), Lhabab Düchen (ལྷ་བབས་དུས་ཆེན, lha babs dus chen) and others

Monthly observances on the 8th, 10th, 15th, 25th and 30th

Lunar mansion, yoga and karaṇa, the element pair of weekday and mansion, the lunar-day animal, trigram and number

What changes within the day, as the almanac of the White Beryl (བཻཌཱུར་དཀར་པོ, bai DUr dkar po) writes it: a second mansion, a skipped yoga and the span of Viṣṭi, each with its time

The date's mewa (སྨེ་བ, sme ba), with what the activity lists name it good or bad for, and the twelve links (རྟེན་འབྲེལ, rten 'brel) counted from the month's middle term, each day's link with its works, directions and remedy

The hundred feet (རྐང་བརྒྱ, rkang brgya): the fangs of the moon, the sun, the five planets and Rāhu on your birth mansion, and the spear and great spear on the moon's mansion

What the almanac writes at the head of each month: whether it is long or short, the planet that rises, the black months, the seven days of the sage (དྲང་སྲོང, drang srong) and of the pig, and the comet its count marks

Lunar and solar eclipses as the almanac reckons them, by the karaṇa reckoning (བྱེད་རྩིས, byed rtsis) of the Kālacakra (དུས་འཁོར, dus 'khor), on their day, with the merit they multiply

The readings of the lunar mansion, date, weekday, yoga, karaṇa and trigram, the special days, Rāhu's course, the earth lords and the direction of the astrologer spirit (བླ་མཁྱེན, bla mkhyen)

A day in brief, weighed as the texts rank their factors: the hours above the day, what the activity lists name good or to avoid, the day's tone and the one factor that decides it

Choose a day: the best days for a work over one to twelve months, ranked as the texts weigh them, with its good hours in each month

Good and bad days and hours for cutting hair, and personal days for your birth year

Health: what falling ill today means by the date, the weekday, the link and…

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