Losar Festival

Losar is a New Year festival of the Monpas. Monpas are the major people of Arunachal Pradesh.

This festival is also most important holiday in Tibet and Bhutan. The Tibetan calendar is made up of twelve lunar months and Losar begins on the first day of the first month, which generally falls in February or March.

In the monasteries, the celebrations for the Losar begin on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth month. That is the day before the Tibetan New Year’s Eve. Before the commencement of the festivities, the Monpas make a local beverage equivalent to beer which is called changkol. They enjoy the changkol and wish each other happy New Year by saying Tashi Delek.