March 5, 2011.
Happy Tibetan New Year! Losar La Tashi Delek, the wish-fulfilling greeting mouthing at high pitch voices can be heard in the early morning accompanied by those disturbing cracker-booms after the last a couple of years of silence expressing solidarity to peaceful protests all over Tibet by Tibetans against the tyranny of Chinese rule (that cost many lives, atrocities, detention, long-term incarceration) and the later mourning for the earthquake disaster at Gyegudo that cost such havoc on many lives and immensely large scale destructions. For me, as of the last a couple of years’ silence, namely not celebrating Losar with the heightened sensibility above this pettiness I don’t feel at ease even this year. But fireworks hadn’t been allowed for many years and this year seems to be much freer—can be the prize for the past a couple of years’ retreat! Yeah, hearing the early morning high pitched greetings and bangs and booms of crackers, the novices’ fun time, draw me aback much early, when as a child how much I had enjoyed having funs with crackers during many Losar times. The reminiscence yields to appreciating their innocent joys and funs.
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