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cannot both be accurate[edit]

This article is part of both Category:Secular holidays and Category:Buddhist holidays. It seems to me that these cannot both be accurate. 129.138.40.11 (talk) 22:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Losar is observed in traditional Tibetan culture, too; some authorities cite February 2007 Julian-Gregorian reckoning onward as being Tibetan year 2134, i.e., Female Fire Pig, not 2133 as in article. 192.68.30.2 16:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese New Year[edit]

Is Losar always the same day as Chinese New Year? If not, what are the differences? This seems to be curiously unexplained when the two calendrical systems bear such close relations to each other. --138.206.161.230 (talk) 02:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Losar is not as same as the Chinese new year. Losar doesn't fall on the same day as chinese new year. Losar is celebrated by Tibetans only, not by Chinese. No Chinese celebrates the Tibetan losar. This Wikipedia's title is confussing for poeple. It states Losar is the most important celebration of Chinese. What does this mean? No Chinese celebrate losar. Only Tibetan does. Chinese government is intentionally turning everything Tibetan into Chinese, and the rest of the so called free world is collaborating with the Chinese regime including this Wekipedia. Shame on those people who do this for money. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.202.32.87 (talk) 06:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it usual for the Losar to be falling on the same day as the Chinese New Year? It appears like that they sometimes do. Montemonte (talk) 22:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are three possibilities, CNY and TNY fall on the same day, differs by 1 day, or differ by 1 month, roughly every possibilities is 1/3. Since both new year holydays last more than 10 days, thus CNY and TNY 2/3 are identical. http://news.xinhuanet.com/society/2010-02/07/content_12948705.htm --刻意(Kèyì) 23:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the correct spelling of the word "losar" in Tibetan[edit]

whoever, used ལོ་གསར་ to refer to losar is not well-read in Tibetan, གསར་ changes to སར་ when the letter is used for a noun. Such words in Tibetan are plenty. For example, གསུམ་ becomes སུམ་ in སུམ་རྐང་། (tripod) when it is used in this noun; དམར་ become མར་ in ས་མར། when it is used in this place name; གཉིས་ becomes ཉིས་ in སོ་ཉིས། ("two-teeths"-- age-name for a four-year-old yak) as a noun; གསར་ becomes སར་ in གཡག་སར། when it is referring to a young adult male yak; and last but not least, གསར་ becomes སར་ in ལོ་སར་ when it is used as part of a noun in this case.

There are so many other names and sources, but མཁས་དབང་དམུ་དགེ་གསམ་གཏན་གྱི་གསུངས་རྩོམ། has specifically point out this issue of the the misuse of the letter when it is used as part of a noun. There is a phrase in Tibetan called མ་དག་རྒྱུན་འབྱམས།, it refers to a phenomenon when something incorrect becomes widely used and become common, but it is still not correct. In this case, an authority would issue a warning to correct it after discussion. I hope poeple educate themselves, and learn these basic rules and grammar of Tibetan. At least do not be so confident when the only things you know are a few Tibetan words and Wylie.

ཚན་ཡ། (talk) 02:49, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]