July 18, 2026
Chhantyal Community Summer Gathering
📍 Community Hall (venue to be confirmed)
A day to come together — food, the Purkhyauli dance, and time for our elders and young ones to share stories.
Our own festivals
The two seasonal festivals the Chhantyal keep as their own — turning points of the farming year, centred on the worship of nature and the ancestors’ spirits.
The community also keeps the great national festivals — Dashain and Tihar — adopted under the influence of Hinduism over the past two centuries. The calendar here gathers the festivals that are distinctly Chhantyal.
Deep winter · New Year
Chharamheng · Chharmyang
When: 1st of Magh (around 14 January)
The main festival of the Chhantyal year and the community's New Year — the name Chharmyang itself means "new year." It is kept on the first of Magh, the day the country observes as Maghe Sankranti, when the sun turns north (Uttarayan) and the hardest cold begins to ease. The Chhantyal mark the turning of the year with feasting and gatherings, and, like all their seasonal observances, with the worship of nature and the ancestors' spirits rather than temple ritual.
Sources: Indigenous Television — Maghi observed by the Chhantyal Wisdomlib — The Chhantyal People Ratopati — Maghe Sankranti among Magar & Chhantyal
Monsoon
Saune Sankranti
When: 1st of Shrawan (around mid-July)
The Chhantyal's monsoon festival. On the first of Shrawan, as the rains reach their height and the rice is set into the hill terraces, the community keeps Saune Sankranti as one of its two great seasonal festivals — a gathering that reinforces community bonds and honours the natural world and the ancestral spirits that sustain the farming year. (One secondary account also records a Chhantyal name for this observance, “Madhya Kanwausaun” — a name still awaiting confirmation from community speakers.)
Sources: Wikipedia — Chhantyal Wisdomlib — The Chhantyal People (alt. name, unverified)
Deep winter · awaiting confirmation
Milange Songti · मिलाङे साेङ्ती
When: Kept together with Charmmheng, in the month of Magh (mid-winter)
An observance named in the Chhantyal community's own calendar alongside Charmmheng — the Nepal Chhantyal Sangh records the two together as "Charmmheng tatha Milange Songti." Its particular customs and exact timing are not yet set down in published sources, so we list it here as a name awaiting fuller detail from community elders rather than describe rituals we cannot verify.
Sources: Nepal Chhantyal Sangh — Charmmheng tatha Milange Songti 2073
Past gatherings
January 15, 2026
Chharamheng Celebration
📍 Online & local gatherings
Marking Chharamheng, the winter festival of the Chhantyal year.