Other names include Vietnamese Tet, Korean Solnal and Tibetan Losar. Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinese culture typically go for 15 days, culminating in a lantern festival on the final day.

The CU Losar event, held on March 5th in the Guggenheim building, was co-sponsored by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Anthropology. This year’s Losar, ...

Both women were seen attending the Tibetan Losar festival at the monastery, sources informed. Rumtek Monastery is the seat of the Gyalwa Karmapa, with Ogyen Trinley Dorje being one of the claimants to ...

For Tibetan people in the Xizang autonomous region, making and trading kasai was a crucial part of the preparations for the recent Tibetan Losar New Year, which fell on Feb 28. The Tibetan term kasai ...

The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the Himalayas the day before the Tibetan New Year, known as Losar, evoking Mahakala to remove obstacles and cleanse the place of negative energy.

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks ushered in the first day of the Tibetan New Year or Losar by holding ritual prayers on the terrace of the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala on Friday. (AP video shot ...

The Gyuto Foundation, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in East Richmond Heights, celebrated the Tibetan New Year, called Losar, on Friday, Feb. 28. Venerable Thupten Donyo, founder and director of the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — You don’t have to worry about moving your car on Friday morning. Alternate Side Parking rules are suspended for Losar, the Tibetan Buddhist New Year. Losar corresponds to ...

Residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region, were seen bustling on the streets on Tuesday, shopping for kasai - traditional Tibetan pastries - to prepare for the upcoming Tibetan ...