Stok Guru Tsechu is yet another Buddhist festival in Ladakh that falls every year in the month of February, just one week before Matho Nagrang. The festival of Stok Guru Tsechu in Ladakh is today one of the widely celebrated fairs and festivals in Jammu and Kashmir and is observed with much fervor and gaiety by the Buddhist community across Leh Ladakh in India.

The Buddhist monks of Stok and Spituk monasteries in Ladakh celebrate the Stok Guru Tsechu festival for two days. The festival is almost celebrated in the same manner as the Matho Nagrang, with two “oracles” making a spiritual appearance before the public. However, the only difference in the case of Stok Guru Tsechu is that the oracles are not monks but laymen from the village who are, in turn, formally prepared by the monks to invoke the deity and holy spirits.

The festival of Stok Guru Tsechu takes place in the Stok village of Ladakh. It is one of the several popular Leh Ladakh festivals that are celebrated with much zeal in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Stok Guru Tsechu festival takes place in Gurphug in Ladakh on the 9th and 10th days of the first month of the Tibetan Lunar Calendar (that falls in the calendar month of February or March). The festival is marked by the performance of “masked dances” by the monks of Spituk monastery in Ladakh.