{"id":6073,"date":"2015-02-17T16:16:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2015-02-20T14:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:56:38","slug":"losar-tibetan-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2015\/02\/losar-tibetan-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Losar: Tibetan New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365424596\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Losar is the most important Tibetan holiday and celebrates the Tibetan New Year, which occurs in February.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the clip above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/02\/13\/february-13-2015-preparing-losar\/25250\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly<\/a> correspondent, Kim Lawton, observes a Queens, New York Tibetan <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> family celebrate the holiday with a meal and rituals of spiritual cleansing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can find out more about the holiday from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/buddhism\/holydays\/losar.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> this BBC Religion site<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihearttibet.org\/losar\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">from this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losar is the most important Tibetan holiday and celebrates the Tibetan New Year, which occurs in February. 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