KATHMANDU: Sherpa community is observing Gyalpo Lhosar across the country by organizing various programs today. The Gyalpo Lhosar is celebrated on Falgun Shukla Pratipada as per the Lunar calendar, believing that this marks the beginning of the year. Sherpa people are celebrating 2151st Gyalpo Lhosar this year by exchanging greetings, cleaning houses, alleys, water resources […]
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has expressed her confidence that festivals like Gyalpo Lhosar would further increase mutual goodwill, tolerance, and fraternity among Nepali people and subsequently further strengthen national unity.
Gyalpo Lhosar, the cultural festival of the Sherpa community that falls on the Shukla Pratipada in the Nepali month of Falgun is being marked today by organizing different programs.
KATHMANDU, March 3: Gyalpo Lhosar, a main festival of the Buddhist community, has begun from today.
The festival is marked for 15 days in Sherpa and Tibetan communities.
The government has granted a public day on Thursday marking the celebration.
On her best wishes, President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said that unity in diversity, a unique identity of Nepal, has helped further consolidate our national strength extending greetings for happiness, peace and prosperity among all sisters and brothers at home and abroad.
She also expressed the hope that such festivals would increase unity, harmony and fraternity among Nepali people and help further strengthen broader national unity.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has wished happiness, peace, good health and progress to all the Sherpa brothers and sisters on the occasion of Gyalpo Lhosar.
KATHMANDU, March 2: The government has decided to grant a public holiday on Thursday marking the celebration of Gyalpo Lhosar.
Gyalpo Lhosar is one of the important festivals of the Buddhist community, especially Sherpa and Tibetan people.
“The Home Ministry took the decision to this effect,” according to Narendra KC, personal assistant of the Home Minister.
The government announced a public holiday across the country on the occasion of the Gyalpo Lhosar on Thursday.
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