I hope my Tibetan friends enjoy a very happy new year , particularly my Tibetan friends who are no longer able to enjoy traditional New Year celebrations in Tibet. Tashi Delek To all our friends for 2019 Tibetan New Year, also Buddhist folks in Nepal and Bhutanese friends heralding in new year of the Earth Female Pig Anyone interested the Tibetan Lunar Calendar as the Chinese colander is not the same. No matter our many web addresses the Chinese flood the world wide web with please know their spring thing is not Losar... An impartial explanation can be found on the following page. The Tibetan calendar uses skip days (tsi chad-pa) and doubled days (tsi lhag-pa) to reconcile the differences between the solar and lunar cycles. Therefore a particular month might have two 19ths and no 23rd. In addition, approximately every thirty months a full month is added to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons (in contrast with the Islamic calendar, which is a truly lunar calendar). The rules for calculating the Tibetan calendar are complex, and passed down from master to student. One result is that Losar, Tibetan New Year, and Chinese New Year do not always correspond, but can differ by an entire lunar month. As the traditions surrounding Losar are as rich as those of the Chinese New Year, multicultural lesson plans centered on Chinese New Year can be effectively adapted to parallel lessons for Losar, and would teach similar concepts.
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Tashi Delek
To all our friends for 2019 Tibetan New Year, also Buddhist folks in Nepal and Bhutanese friends heralding in new year of the Earth Female Pig
Anyone interested the Tibetan Lunar Calendar as the Chinese colander is not the same.
No matter our many web addresses the Chinese flood the world wide web with please know their spring thing is not Losar...
An impartial explanation can be found on the following page.
The Tibetan calendar uses skip days (tsi chad-pa) and doubled days (tsi lhag-pa) to reconcile the differences between the solar and lunar cycles. Therefore a particular month might have two 19ths and no 23rd. In addition, approximately every thirty months a full month is added to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons (in contrast with the Islamic calendar, which is a truly lunar calendar). The rules for calculating the Tibetan calendar are complex, and passed down from master to student. One result is that Losar, Tibetan New Year, and Chinese New Year do not always correspond, but can differ by an entire lunar month. As the traditions surrounding Losar are as rich as those of the Chinese New Year, multicultural lesson plans centered on Chinese New Year can be effectively adapted to parallel lessons for Losar, and would teach similar concepts.
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