Kushalnagar: Tibetans at Bylakuppe are celebrating their annual festival Losar under COVID-19 shadow with junior monks taking over the festival while all their senior counterparts have gone to Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh to spend the New Year with their loved ones.
As per the Tibetan calendar, this is 2148th year and Losar which began on Friday (Feb. 12) ends on Sunday (Feb. 14). While last year was the Year of Iron Mouse, this year it is Year of Iron Ox. Traditionally, the Tibetans follow the lunar pattern in their calendar, wherein one year is made up of twelve months. Others follow Gregorian calendar that is purely a Solar calendar. Tibetan New Year commences on the first day of the first month of each lunar year.
