{"id":4072,"date":"2014-04-08T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2016-02-16T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:39:45","slug":"losar-tibetan-new-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2014\/04\/08\/losar-tibetan-new-year-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Losar: Tibetan New Year celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dalai<\/p>\n

March 2 when it hosted the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota\u2019s Losar celebration in Si Melby Hall. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama presided over this Tibetan New Year ceremony\u2014the first time he observed the holiday in the western hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Sitting on the floor and filling the bleachers, more than 2,500 guests packed Augsburg\u2019s gymnasium, which had been transformed (literally) overnight from the site of a wrestling tournament to an ornately decorated space. After the ceremony and the departure of attending dignitaries\u2014including Augsburg College President Paul Pribbenow and Abigail Pribbenow, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, and U.S. representatives Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum\u2014guests continued the festivities with traditional music, dancing, and food\u2014rice, jerky, deep-fried pastries, dumplings, butter tea, and more. Dozens of Augsburg staff, students, and volunteers worked the event, demonstrating how Augsburg lives out its commitment to hospitality.<\/p>\n

Losar celebration photo gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 2 when it hosted the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota\u2019s Losar celebration in Si Melby Hall. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama presided over this Tibetan New Year ceremony\u2014the first time he observed the holiday in the western hemisphere. Sitting on the floor and filling the bleachers, more than 2,500 guests packed Augsburg\u2019s gymnasium, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-spring-2014"],"wps_subtitle":"Augsburg was the site of a historic event","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}