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Tibet has various festivals which commonly are
performed to worship the Buddha throughout the year. Losar is the Tibetan
New Year Festival. Preparations for the festive event are manifested by
special offerings to family shrine deities, painted doors with religious
symbols, and other painstaking jobs done to prepare for the event.
Tibetans eat Guthuk (barley crumb food with filling) on New Year's Eve
with their families. The Monlam Prayer Festival follows it in the first
month of the Tibetan calendar, falling on the fourth up to the eleventh
day of the first Tibetan month. which involves many Tibetans dancing and
participating in sports events and sharing picnics. The event was
established in 1049 by Tsong Khapa, the founder of the Dalai Lama and the
Panchen Lama's order. |
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