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Celebrate Losar - Tibetan New Year at Chenrezig Institute
Losar 2025:
Losar is the Tibetan New Year and the first two weeks, in particular, commemorate the time when the Buddha uncharacteristically displayed his power by doing a number of miracles to win over hundreds (if not thousands) of disciples from a teacher who was a non-believer of what the Buddha taught and challenged him to a dual of mystical powers. At the end of the two week period, the Buddha had clearly won the match and as a result all present converted to the practices taught by the Buddha.
The new year spawns a time of increase in virtuous activity amongst Buddhist practitioners. Any actions done during that period of time, for better or worse, are multiplied in their power by virtue of being in alignment or out of alignment with the great deeds the Buddha himself did during this same astrological period over 2,500 years ago. It is a very powerful time to practice and increase one’s commitment to both practice and study as the power of that magical event can be harnessed to assist in our personal evolution towards enlightenment
Losar, the Anniversary of Lama Yeshe’s Passing Away
For FPMT, Losar is a special time as it commemorates the anniversary of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe’s parinirvana at dawn of Losar in 1984
Since one of the very best ways to make offerings to the guru is to offer extensive Lama Chopa with tsog, Lama Zopa Rinpoche requests FPMT centers to do this practice on Losar in honor of the anniversary of Lama Yeshe’s passing away. Doing so brings about the greatest purification of negative karma and collects the most incredible merit.
Losar Schedule: Friday 28th February
All Events are in the Main Gompa
09:30am - Guru Puja Tsog and Share stories about Lama Yeshe - we Invite students who new Lama Yeshe to share their stories and inspire new students
1:15pm - Guided meditation
2:00pm - Videos of Lama Yeshe teaching - with freely offered Chai and cake
6:00pm - Evening Practice with Chenrezig Nuns Community
For following 15 days of Miracles there will be many different activities in the Gompa - Please note: all fifteen days of Miracles are merit multiplying days, when the merit of virtuous actions performed on these days is multiplied by 100 million, according to the Vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.
Generate extensive merit by making offerings to this extensive Guru Puja Tsog, for the benefit of all.
We are inviting you to make a light offering with your personal dedication to create extensive merit. You can offer light for 3, 7 or 49 days in our Chenrezig Gompa.
Please refer below to suggested practice for this most auspicious day: Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts
