Losar (ལོ་གསར་ or “new year”) is the most important celebration in the Tibetan calendar, which consists of twelve lunar months. It is celebrated across the Tibetan Plateau, as well as in the Himalayan ...

Tibetan New Year, or “Losar,” as it is known in its native language, was celebrated Friday, Feb. 28, at the Rigdzin Ling in ...

Tribes in northern India marked the Losar New Year festival. Footage shows the residents of Spiti Village in Himachal Pradesh ...

" Kha means 'mouth', and sey means 'snack'," said chef Yeshi Jampa, co-author of the book Taste Tibet and founder of the ...

Losar is celebrated to welcome the New Year. People visit neighbours and friends and exchange greetings. A few days before Losar, it is customary for families to fetch small branches of a thorny ...

Monks rest after performing a traditional dance during Gyalpo Losar, the Sherpa community's New Year celebration, at Shechen ...

Tibetans in exile are celebrating Losar, also known as the Tibetan New Year, and are welcoming the Wood Snake Year 2152 and ...

Losar is the Tibetan New Year. It is celebrated on the first days of the first lunar month in the Tibetan calendar. Its traditions are unique to Tibet, and predate Chinese and Indian influence. The ...

A young monk holds traditional instruments played by fellow monks during Gyalpo Losar, the Sherpa community's New Year ...