Sunday, February 26, 2017 — 5 pm to 7 pm –
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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 the 26th. ‘Gu Tor’ literally means ‘offering of the 29th’ and is held on the 29th day of the 12th month of the Tibetan calendar.
On the 29th families spend the day, similarly to the western idea of spring cleaning, cleaning the inside of the house, making repairs and adding new coats of paint, both inside and out. However, on that day Tibetans also cleanse and cast out all the negativities, including evil spirits and misfortunes of the previous year by performing the Gu Tor ritual. The ritual offers a ransom to the Lu spirits to carry away the negatives from the past year. It centers on purification of the past and preparation for welcoming the new, positive possibilities in the coming year in a peaceful and auspicious way.
Please join us in celebrating Losar, the joyous Tibetan New Year, and take part in observing the Gu Tor ritual purification performed by Rinpoche and resident monks.
Our local some Tibetan Bonpos will prepare authentic cuisine including Guthuk, a noodles soup traditionally eaten by Tibetans as part of the New Year celebration prior to Losar. It is a variation on Thukpa Bhakthuk.
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“The Special Guthuk Dough Ball “Predictions”
In our family tradition, the more positive objects are:
- wool — bay —kind hearted
- a thread rolled inwards — kuba nandrim — a person who draws luck and money
- sun — nyima — the goodness related to light
- moon — dawa — also, the goodness related to light
The unhappy objects are:
- chili — sepen — sharp tongue
- salt — tsa — lazy
- glass — karyul — someone who is happy when there’s fun, but disappears when there is work to do, like a good time charlie
- coal — sola — black hearted
- a thread rolled outward — kuba chidrim — someone who spends or dissipates luck or money
- small prickly ball — semarango — prickly person”
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Location
1608 Bonita Road, San Pablo CA
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