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Lossar of Monpas & Sherdukpens |
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Lossar, the New Year festival of people of Mahayana Bhuddist of Geluk and Nyingma Sects of the great Himalayan belt comprising of Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan, Ladakh, and West Kameng and Tawang and Menchuka area of West Siang districts of Arunachal Pradesh, is usually celebrated in the month of February or early March with much gaiety and religious fervour. Traditionally, a fertility festival, especially of farmers in pre-Buddhist era in which people offered incense sticks to appease the local deities, the festival, in due course of time, evolved into an annual Buddhist festival which is believed to have begun during the reign of Pude Gungyal, the ninth King of Tibet. The celebration which sometimes runs into days and marked with rituals and prayers in Gonpas is the most elaborate of all socio-religious event of the people. Offerings and prayers are made to various deities, elders and family members. People wear new clothes and jewellery during the occasion. Traditional greetings are exchanged as feasting and merry-making are followed during the occasion.
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