Pancha Dan: (July-August

This is a Buddhist festival in which gifts are made by the laity to the monks.  Since monastic Buddhism has been long extinct in Nepal, the receivers of the gift today are the Buddhist priests, the Shakyas and the Vajracharyas, who go begging aims to the house of their clients.  Mainly food grains are offered on this occasion to the begging priests.  Traditional collections of artifacts are displayed in monasteries and households on this occasion.