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The Tibetan-Buddhist New Year of Nepal's high country, explained.
By Maya Rai · Aug 30, 2026
When the coldest, quietest weeks settle over Nepal's high country, its Buddhist villages light up from the inside. This is Losar — the New Year of the Tibetan-Buddhist world — and in the Sherpa, Tamang, Gurung and Tibetan communities of the mountains it is…
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Travellers often assume Losar is one date on the calendar. It is not. Several of Nepal's Himalayan peoples celebrate their own new year, each on its own day, each with its own name — a reminder of how many distinct cultures share these mountains. Tamu Losar…
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The preparations are as meaningful as the day itself. Houses are cleaned from top to bottom to sweep out the residue of the old year. Auspicious signs — the sun, the moon — are painted in flour, and branches of juniper, cedar and rhododendron are burned as…
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For many visitors the abiding memory of a Himalayan Buddhist festival is the cham — the masked, costumed dance performed by monks to the crash and drone of Tibetan horns, drums and cymbals. Cham is far more than spectacle. It is understood as a moving…
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Losar falls squarely in the Himalayan winter, the season when the high trails are at their quietest and clearest. In the Khumbu below Everest, in Langtang, and across the Tamang and Gurung hills, it is the moment the monasteries come alive — prayer flags…
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