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2009-02-25

Losar: Tibetan Bloggers discuss Tibetan New Year

 Tibetan Bloggers discuss Tibetan New Year

"A blog by Lamlak (lam lags) reports that the County government is forcing Ngaba Monastery to change the dates of new year and winter religious ceremonies to coincide with the Chinese New Year - this year, the two new years are a month apart. On Tibetan blogs, there has been much discussion about this year's Tibetan New Year, Losar (lo gsar). A blogger called A thub (a thub) confirms what Lamlak has written. A thub says that everyone is being forced to celebrate Chinese New Year, not just in the monastery but the ordinary villagers in Ngaba are also being told the same."

http://www.highpeakspureearth.com/2009/01/tibetan-bloggers-discuss-tibetan-new.html


Taking Back Our Losar, 2009‏

"So how do we resist genocide? How do we resist the denial of our humanity? One way is to be happy. To be happy is to be human. Happiness is a force that buckles the steely reins of dictators and seeps effortlessly through the shackles and cloaks of oppression. It is a light that dims but never withers, a song that gathers spirits and resonates through the roof for the whole world to hear. It is a burst of colours, of the so many things that make us who we are."

http://tibettalk.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/taking-back-our-losar-2009%E2%80%8F/

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