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Tibet's New Year – Losar – was celebrated in the Tibet Square in Vilnius on Sunday, reports LETA/BNS.

Under the Tibetan calendar, the date marks the start of the year 2143, the year of the Fire Monkey. Participants of the Vilnius celebration wrote messages to Tibet's spiritual leader Dalai Lama XIV and the people of Tibet, with video messages to be sent to Dalai Lama.

The event started at 4 p.m. local time, including decorations of the square, traditional replacement of the old prayer flags with new ones, burning of candles and incense. All participants had an opportunity to sign messages to the people of Tibet.

Losar is the most important and the biggest Buddhist festival in Tibet and in exile, which gives start to a festival of prayers of great importance in Tibet's culture.

Lithuania officially considers Tibet, a region in the Himalaya Mountains, part of China, however, together with other nations of the European Union speak for peaceful regulation of the relations between China's administration and Tibet's spiritual leader Dalai Lama and his supporters.