Family reunions for Tibetan Losar

Relatives and friends touch the buttered tea and flip it three times with index fingers to show their respect to Earth, Heaven and gods. [Photo/Tibet.cn]

The younger generations pour buttered tea to mom and dad. [Photo/Tibet.cn]

Guests and hosts salute each other with knocking heads. [Photo/Tibet.cn]

Tibet welcomes its Losar Iron Rabbit New Year on Mar. 5, 2011. All the family members eat "qiangku", a kind of highland barley wine made of Tsampa(roasted highland qingke barley flour), brown sugar and milk dregs during the day according to the traditional custom, China Tibet Online reported.

On the first day of the Tibetan New Year, all the people are in their festival dresses, congratulate to the seniors and say "Tashi Delek" to each other.
Chogyal Dorje from Lhasa enjoys his old age in peace and gets most of his children back home for family reunions this year. He has 6 offsprings in total, 4 of them are biological children, with the other two adopted orphans. All the children have grown up with different occupations, including Living Buddha, college lecturer, driver and businessman.

Chogyal's eldest son, a Living Buddha in Thangling Monastery, comes back home to see parents for the Tibetan Losar. [Photo/Tibet.cn]

Rigsang Dorje, his eldest son, is a Living Buddha in Thangling Monastery, Ngangring Country of Shigatse Prefecture. While Chogyal's youngest son is learning techniques of driving trains in Golmud City of Qinghai Province. The boy is looking forward to driving the train back to Lhasa one day.