{"id":10252,"date":"2011-03-03T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2011-03-03T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:38:00","slug":"march-5-tibetan-new-year-losar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=10252","title":{"rendered":"March 5: Tibetan New Year &#8211; Losar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 5, Losar<\/p>\n<p>In Tibetan monasteries, observance of Losar begins during the last days  of  the old year. Monks perform special rituals evoking protective  deities and clean  and decorate the monasteries. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first day of Losar  is a day of elaborate  ceremonies, including dances and recitations of  Buddhist teachings. The  remaining two days are for a more secular  festival. On the third day, old prayer  flags are replaced with new  ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/losar2011.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10252]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10253\" title=\"losar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/losar2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kunzang Palchen Ling (KPL) is a Tibetan Buddhist center in Red Hook, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Practice will be held  at 4330 Rt 9G, Red Hook NY 12571.<br \/>\nPotluck lunch will be held at 37 Pinewood Lane, Red Hook NY 12571.<\/p>\n<p>Daily schedule:<br \/>\n8 &#8211; 9:30 AM Green Tara puja<br \/>\n9:30 &#8211; 10:30 AM Tea and rice ceremony followed by kata offering<br \/>\nNOON Potluck lunch<\/p>\n<p>For more info: http:\/\/www.kunzang.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 5, Losar In Tibetan monasteries, observance of Losar begins during the last days of the old year. Monks perform special rituals evoking protective deities and clean and decorate the monasteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4969,4968],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","tag-losar","tag-tibetan-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}