Marking New Year a "Black Year"

Cancellation Tibetan New Year to mourn the death of over two hundred Tibetans killed by Chinese forces following the uprising in Tibet last year and to protest China's ongoing crackdown. According to the Tibetan lunar calendar, February 25th was mark the first day of 2136, the year of the Earth Ox was thus celebrated with humble activities at Tibetan Settlement at Bylakuppee in Kushalnagar our chapter.

From morning 6:00 am we started our activity of lighting a lamp(Candle). There was crowd of Tibetans as well as other buddhist who came for the teaching and blessing from His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the day at Sera Jey University for Bhuddhism study. Many contributed donation considering money as the root for organising any campaign. We Concluded our activity at 1:30pm as the crowd dissappeared. This is purely of our own dedication that we bunked our college and devoted the day for

1. Those who died last year(2009)
2. For the long live of the His Holiness The Dalai Lama
3. For world peace
4. etc

The whole day was marked successful and we leap forward to organise more effective actions in future