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The map accompanying an earlier version of this story misidentified the location of the Amdo region of Tibet. It has been updated. For as far as the eye could see, thousands of white tents the ...
Losar 2018 spans over three days and there are lots of ways it is celebrated. While the event always falls in February, the date differs, depending on the lunar calendar.
February 19, 2015 5:35 PM By Losang Gyatso share Security Build Up for Losar in Amdo Ngaba No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:36 0:00 Download 270p | 4.3MB 320p | 5.8MB ...
Washington, DC [US], March 1 (ANI): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has extended wishes to Tibetans on Losar, also known as the Tibetan New Year and expressed US' commitment to protecting the ...
Tibetans celebrate Losar as a festival for three days. Tibetans are welcoming the Wood Snake Year 2152 and bidding good bye to Dragon Wood year 2151. Losar is celebrated for different lengths of ...
Losar is a time of renewal and hope. Tibetans believe that the events of the new year will be determined by the actions taken during the first three days of Losar. As such, they strive to make the ...
Gray Tuttle will visit CU Boulder on November 4th to deliver a lecture on "Why Amdo Matters: TIbetan Middle Ground between Lhasa and Beijing." Professor Tuttle studies the history of twentieth-century ...
A Tibetan man works on his prayer flags in Lhasa, Tibet, on Thursday. [Photo by Palden Nyima/chinadaily.com.cn] Losar symbolizes the beginning of a new year, she added. "And we usually make good ...
Synopsis "Dancing in Amdo" takes the viewer inside China for an unprecedented, in-depth look at the current state of the Tibet Autonomous Region from the perspective of Tibetans living within ...
On March 4, 2022, the University of Colorado celebrated Tibetan Losar for the first time on campus. Losar, the Tibetan New Year, is celebrated across the Tibetan plateau and in the Himalayan regions ...