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Losar is celebrated for 15 days, with the main celebrations on the first three days. On the first day of Losar, a beverage called changkol is made from chhaang (a Tibetan-Nepali equivalent of beer). The second day of Losar is known as King's Losar (gyalpo losar). Losar is traditionally preceded by the five-day practice of Vajrakilaya.
Festivities last 15 days, ahead of which people spend much time preparing food and alcohol and cleaning their homes of old and unused objects. [10] [11] In Bhutan, different communities celebrate Losar at slightly different times and refer to the holiday by particular local names. [9] The common Losar greeting is "Losar tashi delek."
Tashi delek is traditionally used as part of a larger invocation on Losar. [6] [7] With the Dalai Lama's exile and creation of the Tibetan diaspora, exile authorities promoted the use of tashi delek as an all-purpose greeting which could be easily picked up by foreign sponsors. [6]
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Gyalpo Losar is celebrated for 2 weeks. The main celebrations take place during first three days. On the first day, a traditional beverage called Changkol, an equivalent of Chhaang is drunk. In the second day, which is the start of new year, Gyalpo Losar is celebrated. On the third day, people gather together to have a feast.
It is celebrated in Leh, Likir and Diskit monasteries. [1] It is the last festival of New Year Celebrations, the other one is Losar. [2] The two-day Dosmoche festival is a gazetted holiday for Leh district and Zanskar Sub Division. Dosmoche is also known as the "Festival of Scapegoat" and is one of Ladakh's most popular prayer festivals. [3]
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The Ladakhi language is a Tibetic language spoken in Ladakh, which is also called Bhoti or Bodhi. [7] As per the 2011 census, approximately 110,826 people speak Ladakhi. [8] Ladakhi has absorbed words from the silk route trade. [9] It is usually written using Tibetan script with the pronunciation of Ladakhi being much closer to written ...