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| Also called | Tibetan New Year Losar |
| Observed by | Tibetans, Bhutanese, Ladakhis, Sherpas, Tamangs, Monpas, worldwide Tibetan Buddhists |
| Type | Tibetan culture, Tibetan Buddhist, New year |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Related to | Galdan Namchot, Losoong, Gyalpo Losar, Tamu Lhosar, Sonam Lhosar, |
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Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་, Wylie: lo-sar; "new year"[1]) also known as Tibetan New Year, is a festival in Tibetan Buddhism.[2] The holiday is celebrated on various dates depending on location (Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, India) tradition.[3][4] The holiday is a new year's festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date in February or March in the Gregorian calendar.[1] In 2025, the new year commenced on February 28 and celebrations will run until March 2. It also commenced the Year of the Female Wood Snake.[5]
The variation of the festival in Nepal is called Sonam Lhosar and is observed about eight weeks earlier than the Tibetan Losar.[6]
- ^ a b William D. Crump, "Losar" in Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide (McFarland & Co.: 2008), pp. 237-38.
- ^ "Buddhism: Losar". BBC. September 8, 2004.
- ^ Peter Glen Harle, Thinking with Things: Objects and Identity among Tibetans in the Twin Cities (Ph.D dissertation: Indiana University, 2003), p. 132: "In Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India and other areas where Tibetan Buddhism is practiced, the dates for Losar are often calculated locally, and often vary from region.".
- ^ William D. Crump, Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide (McFarland & Co.: 2008), pp. 237: ""Different traditions have observed Losar on different dates."
- ^ Agrawal, Ridhi (February 2, 2025). "Khapse: A sweet believed to bring peace and tranquility". BBC Travel. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- ^ Tibetan Borderlands: PIATS 2003: Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003, p. 121: "Yet though their Lhochhar is observed about eight weeks earlier than the Tibetan Losar, the festival is clearly borrowed, and their practice of Buddhism comes increasingly in a Tibetan idiom."