Happy Chökhor Düchen 2025!

July 2025

Warm greetings from Tushita &
wishing you all an auspicious Chökhor Düchen!

The Tibetan Buddhist festival day of Chökhor Düchen marks Shakyamuni Buddha’s first teaching, when the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths in Sarnath, near Varanasi.

This day is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar and is considered to be very auspicious for practice. Karmic results of actions are multiplied one hundred million times, as quoted by Lama Zopa Rinpoche from the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.

To celebrate this meritorious occasion we will have a special program in person at Tushita and live on zoom – you’re most welcome to join us!

We will have the following program at Tushita:

Schedule

9.00 – 10.00am	Drop-in Guided Meditation
10.00 – 11.00am	Light Offering Ceremony with Sangha
1.00 – 2.00pm	Recitation of Golden Light Sutra
2.00 – 3.00pm	Dharma Movie “Life of Buddha”
3.00 – 4.30pm	Teaching “What the Buddha Taught?” – by Venerable Tenzin Thegchog
6.30pm	Medicine Buddha Puja

Drop in for any session! No registration needed and by donation.
Please feel very welcome to join us in person at Tushita or online on this special day!
For the zoom link please visit this page.

Precious opportunity to offer a light for your loved ones!

On this auspicious day we also present you & your loved ones with the unique opportunity to offer a butter lamp with your special dedication in this holy place!

Offering lights to holy objects is a very powerful method to illuminate the wisdom in our minds and to create causes for us to attain realizations. In Tushita, butter lamps can be offered on your behalf on wheel turning days with your special dedication. This offering is done in front of the altars in our Main Gompa in this holy place, Dharamsala (home in exile of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama).