October 2015

Gutor and Losar (Tibetan New Year) Celebration དགུ་གཏོར་དང་ལོ་སར།

Sunday, February 26, 2017 — 5 pm to 7 pm – / Losar literally means ‘New Year’. The Losar festival in Tibet is the biggest event of the year. Traditionally families gather together, traveling back to their homeland from all across Tibet during this time. In 2017, the Tibetan New Year falls on the 27th of February and is marked with preparation and performing of the Gu Tor ritual, which takes place on

A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION སངས་རྒྱས་གཤེན་རབ་མི་བོ་དང་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཁྲུངས་མཆོད།

A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION HONORING TONPA SHENRAB MIWO and NYAMME SHERAB GYALTSEN SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2017 – 11 am to 2:30 pm — Blessings are multiplied during such holy occasions.  So, we are very happy that this ceremony will begin with a short blessing service led by Chaphur Rinpoche and Gyalshen’s resident monks.  To express our gratitude and love, we will be offering khatas to Tompa Shenrab and Nyamme Sherab Gyalshen. 

Geshe Kunchap

November 7 and 8th, 10 am-5 pm In the Yungdrung Bön tradition, there are many rituals for healing and the restoration of peace and harmony.  Among them, is the ritual known as Lalu Chilu, Soul Retrieval and Life Ransom.  This ritual is performed for those who have a diminished or damaged soul or life force.  The symptoms of this can be loss of energy and/or interest in life, continually occurring