High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tibetan calendar is a lunisolar calendar, that is, the Tibetan year is composed of either 12 or 13 lunar months, each beginning and ending with a new moon. A thirteenth month is added every two or three years, so that an average Tibetan year is equal to the solar year. The Tibetan New Year celebration is Losar (lo-gsar). The Tibetan civil year starts with the firat day of the first Hor month. During the Yar-lung Dynasty the Tibetan year started in summer. According to almanacs the year starts with the 3rd Hor month. There were many different traditions in Tibet to fix the beginning of the year. There were different traditions of naming years in Tibet. During the time of the Yar-lung Dynasty years were named by the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. From the 12th century onwards, we observe the usage of two sixty-year cycles. The 60-year cycle is known as the B?haspati (or V?haspati) cycle and was first introduced into Tibet by an Indian Buddhist by the name of Chandra Nath and Chilu Pandit of Tibet in 1025 CE.

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