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Tibetans not to celebrate 'Losar' new year

by azzayindia | February 25, 2009 at 06:29 am

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In an unprecedented "outpouring of emotion" the Tibetan community under the banner of Tibetan Youth congress, Tibetan Women’s Congress and Tibetan Homes Foundation marked the first day of Losar 25th Feb as the day of mourning. The Tibetan Community young and old gathered at Historic Gandhi Chowk to mourn and pay homage to the fellow Tibetans who were martyred in the uprising last year in Lhasa. Taashi Phunsuk the General Secretary of Tibetan Homes Foundation, Mussoorie lit the lamp at the portrait of His Holiness Dalai Lama. The prayer session was held in which the monks recited Tibetan mantras.Tenzing Paltzer read out the message on the occasion and said that 2009 in the Tibetan Calendar is the year 2136, the Year of the Earth Ox. Tibetans in Tibet and Mussoorie will not be celebrating ‘Losar’ and this act of resistance against Chinese is also a mark of respect to those who died in the Uprisings of 2008.He also said that this act of 'mourning'’ was somber reflection on the crackdown following the protests that swept across Tibet last year.He also added that the community is organizing this day as black day through out India and abroad in protest of the Chinese aggression. The program was coordinated by Tenzing Paltzor the member Tibetan Youth Congress in which Tibetan women congress and THS participated in full strength.The Tibetan community also lit the candles in symbolic support of this Tibetan cause.

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for more go to earlier story:
http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/inside-tibet-reports/tibetans-mourning-chinese-new-year-begins

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Paschen

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at 08:10 on February 25th, 2009

This is an eyewitness report from the NowPublic member azzayindia who was on the scene.

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Paschen

at 08:11 on February 25th, 2009

Thank you for the post.

amyjudd

at 09:33 on February 25th, 2009

Thanks for this story

Susan Marie

at 08:37 on February 26th, 2009

Tibet is one thing, one day, I am going to get behind in a major way when I am able. The Dalai came here 2 years ago, it was amazing. I recorded Drepung Loseling Monastery while they were here also and met with Tenzin, a young Buddhist monk and it changed my life. This is so very important to me . . . how amazing and difficult,simultaneous, to be on the scene for this.