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Tibetans in Kathmandu celebrate New Year

Tibetans in Kathmandu celebrate New Year

By THT Online

A Tibetan masked person performs a traditional dance during an occasion to mark Losar or Tibetan New Year, at Bhirkuti School in Boudha, Kathmandu on Thursday. A minor number of exiled Tibetans assembled at the school compound to celebrate the New Year. Photo/Skanda Gautam

Some Tibetans, exiled from their land and currently residing in Nepal, had assembled at the Bhrikuti School in Bouddha of Kathmandu on Thursday. They were there to celebrate the Tibetan New Year or Lhosar. Some moments of the celebration has captured by THT photojournalist Skanda Gautam: