Dear Friends of Tushita, Autumn 2012 saw the inauguration of the main Gompa painting project which meant closing the Gompa to the public in late September, with 2 months of the season still remaining. Whilst the project has been ongoing we have tried our best to ensure that the courses could continue to run well […]
In November 2013 we launched our new-look website, the one you are reading this article on! We’re very happy with the new site, which has heightened security and features with potential for expansion of online audio-visual materials. The site was a complete re-build, so the full transition of a few elements from our old site […]
In October 2013, new marble plaques were installed at Geshe Rabten‘s stupa. You can see photos of these plaques above, and of the stupa today, below right. We used one of our favourite quotes from one of Geshe Rabten’s books: Buddhism is neither the strange tradition of some foreign lands, nor a method to flee […]
Monsoon 2013 started early, ended late and made its presence felt throughout. It was one of the longest and heaviest monsoons in recent memory and many other parts of Northern India experienced terrible flooding. Thankfully, the Dharamsala area, and Himachal Pradesh in general, escaped the worst of it and apart from a small land-slip at […]
When Lama Zopa Rinpoche left Tushita on the 19th of June 2013, he travelled to Triloknath, a small village in the Lahaul district of Himachal Pradesh. Triloknath is also known as Garsha Khandroling, “Land of the Dakinis.”, and has an ancient temple that houses a self-emanating statue of Chenrezig. Lama Zopa, along with Khadro-la and […]
Tushita and the FPMT’s spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived at Tushita early in the morning of May 24th 2013 and stayed for a month, before leaving on the 19th of June for a short retreat in Manali. Rinpoche’s visits are always intense and full of surprises, and we’ve kept an event-by-event diary of the activities that occurred […]
On May 10th 2013, it felt like history was in the making when our three A-Frame retreat huts that were built in the mid-1970s started to be dismantled to make way for three beautiful new retreat huts to be built this autumn (the first stage of Tushita’s Retreat Hut Project, which you can read more about […]
We were very sad to learn that Venerable Lobsang Namdrol, the longest-term resident of our monastic community, passed away on January 13th 2013 at Drepung Monastery, Karnataka State, South India. He was 85 years old and had been in good health right up until his peaceful departure from this life. Ven Namdrol received his initial […]
The 2013 season began with a wonderful surprise! Our old friend David Marks (left) returned to Tushita after 4 years, and we were excited to be able to accept his offer to guide and teach here for a few months. David will be leading an extended version of our daily drop-in guided meditation sessions here every day except Sunday, from […]
We only had “Great Compassion” until we adopted “Wisdom” in October 2012, and accepted “Happiness” into our lives in February 2013… And so now we have all three, more familiarly known by their Tibetan names: “Nying-je Chenmo”, “Yeshe” and “Dekyi” – Tushita’s canine sangha! Nying-je has been our resident darling since she arrived as a […]
The two Lama Tsongkhapa Disciple statues arrived at Tushita in May 2012. Fundraising began at the beginning of 2009 and took 2½ years to complete (one of them is below left during the construction phase). The project was made possible thanks to 121 kind sponsors who supported the project. Since June 2011 we had been […]