Losar: Tibetan New Year

Losar: Tibetan New Year 2015-02-20T14:56:38-05:00

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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