It is super difficult to explain losar, but I have a bunch of pictures so I can try. This is me inside the main temple standing in front of all the offerings. Traditionally before Tibet became a Buddhist society farmer's losar contained animal sacrifice. Buddhists use capse instead and make different ones to look like different parts of the animal. The pile is called donkey ears, and there are ones made to look like intestines and small ones that look like hearts go on top.
To the right is a huge butter sculpture, and then a table with food offerings to the deities.
The first day of losar I got woken up by people outside screaming losar tashi delek! And shooting off fireworks. We went back to sleep until six, when we then got woken up to drink chang, or rice beer. Everyone had chang except for nima, the 8 year old cousin.
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