Losar is the Tibetan word for "New Year". Losar is an important holiday / Festival in Ladakh and other parts as well. Though this is also common in Tibet, Bhutan and in Nepal. The Losar (New Year) celebration is followed by Galdan Namchot, the birth anniversary of Tsogkha pa who introduced Gelukpa School of order. During Namchot people illuminate their houses, monasteries and mountains and make offerings in the houses and monasteries.
This two day long festival is held mainly in the Spituk, Thiksay and Karsha Monastery in Zanskar in down south of Ladakh. 
This festival ia mainly welcoming the beginning of New Year called Losar Festival. The festival of Galdan Namchot is celebrated as the birth anniversary of Galden Thripa His Holiness Gyalwa Tsonkhapa and also as the Buddhahood of Tsongkhapa. The Tibetan saint- scholar Tsonkhapa founded the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism during the 14th century. The Gelukpa school later developed as the dominant monastic order in Central Tibet.
Spituk Monastery is located in outskirts of Leh by following Kargil highway around 7 kilometres. The site of Spituk was blessed by the Arhat Nyimagung founded by Od-de, the elder brother of Lha Lama Changchub Od when he came to Maryul in the 11th Century. 
Dosmochey is celebrated in Leh at Leh Palace, Liker Monastery down west of Leh town and Deskit monastery in Nubra Valley. This festival celebrated for two days in the courtyards of the Leh palace. The monks from different monasteries gather to perform the Chams every year. 
This festival is being celebrated in Nubra Valley in Ladakh. You need to cross the highest motorable pass in the world called Khardungla to reach at Nubra Valley. In this festival Locals, during the Yargon Tungshak Festival, feast on delicious local foods; mostly skyu, gurgur cha and thukpa, and the monasteries also holds social feast for the locals. This festival in Nubra Valley, the essence of Yargon Tungshak Festival gets further enhanced by the chanting of religious prayers in the monasteries.
Stok Palace and monastery is located across the river Indus in left bank. Stok Palace and Monastery is a subsidiary of Spitok and both were founded by the same lama, Nawang Lotus, during the reign of King Takpa Bumlde. Stok belongs to the yellow-hat sect of Buddhism and currently has about 20 lamas living there. The oldest parts of the gompa are some 550 years old though the main Dukhang is only about 50 years old.
Stok Guru Tsechu is the main festival of Stok monastery. It is celebrated on the ninth and tenth day of the first month of Tibetan calendar. It comes one week prior to Matho Naranng festival of Matho Monastery. Prayers, dance (Cham by Lamas), music and food are part of celebration but unlike other monasteries, prayer services are led by common people.
Matho Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located 25 Km southeast of Leh in Ladakh, on the banks of the Indus River. The village of Matho is located at the mouth of a deep gorge running out of the Zanskar Range and across the Indus and opposite of most picturesque Thikse Monastery.
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