Happy Losar

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Today is Sherpa and Tibetan new Year Losar. We are celebrating the Losar with family and friends.
No DOTD today so save up $ !

Happy Losar!
Tashi Delek!
Happy New Year!

Pemba and Kanchi



Kanchhi is giving blessings to family member and friends





Kanchhi and my youngest sister Chokpa



Kanchhi and Chokpa









Enjoy the pix

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Nice to see Kanchhi again, along with older and new faces. Have a nice party, guys!
 
How very cool this is. The family tree grows. Didn't know about Chokpa, youngest sister.

Probably a lot I don't know and none of my business either but very nice to see family pictures.

I dig Pemba and Randy in the hat, ready for a Clint Eastwood movie.

Thank you for sharing.

And Happy Losar.

We probably should have got today off for holiday. I'm going to talk to the boss right this minute.
 
Happy Losar! Very nice photos and thank you for sharing your family with us. Good thing, I'm old and married. Otherwise, I'd be chasing after Chokpa!!
 
Bookie said:
Happy Losar! Very nice photos and thank you for sharing your family with us. Good thing, I'm old and married. Otherwise, I'd be chasing after Chokpa!!
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Back off ya old goat, I seen her first!

Sorry Doc, I didn't mean it, I don't know what came over me. I apologize. Don't, I'm begging you, don't get the dolls out.
 
Happy New Year Auntie.

Chinese New Year for us as well...in fact, I need to get a cooking the New Years Dinner.
 
Happy Losar.

This is also the start of the Chinese New Year, calculated by a luni-solar calendar. The year of the horse has ended, and the year of the sheep/goat begins. The Chinese character can mean either sheep, ram, or goat.

The traditional Tibetan calendar by which Losar is calculated is also luni-solar. That calendar also has a tradition of associating animals with years in the calendrical cycle, so the Tibetan cultures are also entering the year of the goat.


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may this year be blessed for you and all your family and friends

much love and good health to you and yours -
- Eric
 
Howard Wallace said:
Happy Losar.

This is also the start of the Chinese New Year, calculated by a luni-solar calendar. The year of the horse has ended, and the year of the sheep/goat begins. The Chinese character can mean either sheep, ram, or goat.

The traditional Tibetan calendar by which Losar is calculated is also luni-solar. That calendar also has a tradition of associating animals with years in the calendrical cycle, so the Tibetan cultures are also entering the year of the goat.
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Exactly...:)
 
Much more refined than doing the hokey poky and you twirl yourself around. Put your left foot in.

I really enjoy these pictures and I agree, looks like everybody having a good time.

Auntie or someone smarter than me (ok just about everybody) can somebody explain the blessing Kanchi is doing. She has a cup of something? And in the Chopka photo she has whatever that something is in her hand.

Now what? Does she eat it? I just know I'll be a lot more worldly if I figure this out. The others apparently were finished before the photo.

And I need to get down there and run the camera so we can have some Auntie action photos too. Agreed?
 
Celebrating Losar

Since I left Nepal almost 29 years ago I have not celebrated the Losar in the US. I barely remember the old days when we use to celebrate the Losar. My sister Kanchhi keeps the traditional celebration and she and Pemba organized this Losar party for our friends and family.

Losar Eve we offer the fried bread called Khapsa with a mix of candy, coconut, other dried fruits, rice chang (brew) and water to God. On the Losar New Year, early in the morning, all the family will get together and give Chimmer (roasted wheat flour mixed with a little butter and sugar) to all. After we eat a pinch of Chimmer and drink a drop of Chang, we give blessings to each other.

 
Chokpa is married to Samthen Tamang and they have one lovely six year old son.

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Tibbetan friend Chndrup, Chokpa and Samthen Tamang
 
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