Lotsar: Tibetan New Year 1986

I was looking at:Padmasambhava's Dorje Drollo footprints in Rock
and I was thinking back on this because I remembered one of the Tibetan Monks that I knew from the Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist Gonpa there in Rewalsar, India took a Maxwell house old fashioned coffee can and put an M-80 (a North American Style Cherry bomb) under it during the celebration. I remember the thing going off like a bam and watching the upside down large coffee can go up about 100 to 400 feet straight into the air. It was sort of important to watch where it was going to come down though because it likely would have killed anyone it hit in the head. However, it was great fun to watch and reminded me of my own life a lot when I was under about 16 in the U.S, so it brought a big smile to my face.

So, riding on top of buses young and older co-ordinated men often did but you had to watch for power lines, phone lines, tree branches and any other obstacles like low street signs that overhung the bus while it traveled usually no more than 25 miles per hour because you were always then sharing the road with pedestrians, bicyclists, farm carts that went not more than 5 to 10 miles per hour, motorcycles, trucks and cars. So, 25 miles per hour was as fast as you ever would go wherever there were a lot of people that lived in that area. You didn't usually want to go faster than 25 miles per hour usually because of the 1 foot deep chuckholes that would catapult someone 6 feet high and their heads would hit the ceiling if riding in the back of the bus. My whole family bumped our heads the first time this happened and we  then knew why people never rode in the back of the bus.

Within a few days of the fireworks in Dharamshala, India we went to Rewalsar as several Tibetan Lamas and Monks had recommended I go there. So, I went with my family there. We spent over a week there experiencing the Padmasambhava, Dorje Drollo manifestation sacred place called in Hindi, Rewalsar but in Tibetan it is called Tsopema.
 
I just found out that Tibetan New Year is March 2nd 2014 this year and it is the wood horse year.
Here is my source:
http://www.yowangdu.com/tibetan-buddhism/tibetan-calendar.html