Tibetan New Year 2009 - Losar
Today, 25 February 2009 is Tibetan New Year - Losar.
This, however, is a very poignant year in Tibetan history as it marks some 60 years of Chinese occupation and will see the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising (in Lhasa on 10 March 1959) where some 80,000 people lost their lives.
In hommage to the 1.2 million people who have fallen during this period and in solidarity for the Tibetans still living in oppression, Tibet has requested there be no festivities to mark Losar this year. Normally a festival of celebration, Tibet ask we observe this occasion with sobriety, reflection and empathy for their people still in exile.
Please join me and others worldwide in lighting a candle today for Tibet and sending our prayers to this magnificent nation that it may soon be at peace and free from tyranny.
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Namaste.
J X
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