World Religions
Losar is the most important Tibetan holiday and celebrates the Tibetan New Year, which occurs in February.
In the clip above, PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly correspondent, Kim Lawton, observes a Queens, New York Tibetan Buddhist family celebrate the holiday with a meal and rituals of spiritual cleansing.
You can find out more about the holiday from this BBC Religion site and from this site.
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