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Happy Losar Tibetan New Year
Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Tradition

Losar Tashi Delek ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།

Losar ལོ་གསར (New Year) is a historical event for Tibetan people. The year of the pig falls on February 5thof the Gregorian calendar this year. Tibetans follow the 12-year cycle zodiac heavily. Most Tibetan mothers even refer to their children’s birth year by the year of the zodiac animal rather than the calendar year.   Tibetan culture is […]

Celebration, Nature, Tibetan Culture

Tibet’s Summer Is Most Striking

The sky is blue, and the clouds are white. Drizzling nights and burning daytime sun, yet leaves you perfectly content. The rainy season cultivates wildflowers, mushrooms, and other vegetation that charm the plateau. The pedicularis (lousewort) flowers in cream and purple color, The meconopsis poppies and gentian in blue and white, And potentillas anserine (silverweeds) […]

Losar wishes, Lo sar, Tibetan losar, Losar food, Losar customs, losar 2016, Happy Lunar New Year
Losar, Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Tradition

Happy Losar 2016

Wishing all Tibetans and friends a very happy Losar 2016. ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།   Below are links to a few stories and pictures that will transport you to the Tibetan plateau and to experience the ancient traditions of Losar (Lo sar, the Tibetan New Year). Visual feast during Losar preparation: During Losar preparation, you only need to take […]

Tibetan women, losar, Tibetan new year/ lo sar
Losar, Spirituality, Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Tradition

5 Ways to Experience Losar Traditions

  While a house requires strong pillars to hold its structures one might say, a culture is formed based upon its long-standing traditions, beliefs, art, and customs. Festivals and rituals are windows into rich traditions of faraway lands. My journey home to the Tibetan plateau for 2015 Losar, Tibetan New Year, was a renewal of my […]

Handmade noodles, Tibetan noodles, Thugba or Thukpa ཐུག་པ, noodle dough disk, Noodle Dishes in Tibetan Culture
Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Food, Tibetan Tradition

ཐུག་པ Home-made Hand-made Noodles

  Like many cultures around the globe, Tibetans cherish our own special noodles. Noodle dishes are, in fact, a staple in Tibetan cooking across the rangelands and lower meadows. We call them thukpa ཐུག་པ (aka thug ba or thugba)  and generally refer to wheat flour noodles. Only those never recorded cookbooks knew when a Tibetan grandmother, who […]

Tibetan dumplings, food
Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Food

Tibetan Dumplings Brighten Others

The September sun up in the sky might be fading its strength. But, like the golden splash in my garden, it is a good time for cooking for your loved ones or brightening someone else’s life. I recently talked to Lindsay Christians, a reporter at The Capital Times, about cooking Tibetan food to benefit Literacy […]