Losar 2024 : nouvel an Tibétain chez Banak

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In March 2024, for the Tibetan New Year, the couple Tashi and Tseiring transformed their restaurant into a performance hall. They had invited young Tibetan musicians to perpetuate the tradition of their Opera. How beautiful it is to see the new generation proud of their culture that China wants to make disappear. Losar is the name of this important for two main reasons: first it allows them to strengthen ties between Parisian Tibetans, all political exiles. they gethered across all generations. here is the oldest Tibetan I met last year at a Tibetan festival. The second reason is that it reminds them that more than 3000 monks who celebrated the new year in 1959 in Lhasa, the holy capital of Tibet, were murdered and shot by the Chinese army which took total control of this region as large as 4 times France. Since then, repression has raged, China has sent 50 million Chinese to a Tibet which had only 7 million Tibetans. In 2023 more than a million young Tibetans were moved to Chinese boarding re-education centers to make them forget theireTibetan culture, that of the 15th Dalai Lama. To support their culture, Banak's guests wrote their wishes on blue stuff symbolize the sky and space, on white fabrics which symbolize air and wind, on red color of fire, green water and yellow, the earth. As the Tibetans do when they arrive at a mountain pass, they placed them in the wind along the window of the restaurant so that their wishes fly away with the energy of the wind and flood humanity. A dancer and her daughter came to show us Tibetan grace. Last year in 2023 it was another restaurant another guest : Lama Tsewang who came to meet us and tell us about Ladakh the region in India which welcomes all the Tibetans forced to flee their country to be able to meet their Dalai Lama and practice Tibetan Buddhism. Let's not forget to discover this ancient Tibetan culture that China is trying to make disappear and which is full of human values ​​that the consumer society has made us forget such as minimalism, the opposite of anthropocentrism, vulnerability and the impermanence of things. happy new year happy Lossar