Post-monsoon Season at Tushita

September 2025

Warm greetings from Tushita!

Monsoon started mid June and it was pretty intense this year! Nevertheless we continued with our program and since then we have welcomed around 800 students both residentially and non-residentially and hosted quite a few special events! Rejoice rejoice rejoice!

During these rainy months, we offered 6 Introduction to Buddhism courses, one advanced course with Geshe Kelsang Wangmo, one special course with Geshe Dorji Damdul, the 3-month Vajrasattva retreat and 3 short courses.

Introduction to Buddhism by Kabir Saxena | 14 – 23 Jun 2025

We also celebrated His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th Birthday and were very happy to have Venerable Roger at Tushita for a few days in order to offer statues to His Holiness from FPMT part! Here you can find more pictures and details.

Special Events

Yangten Rinpoche teachings

We also so honoured to have Yangten Rinpoche twice during this monsoon! On 1 July, Rinpoche taught on Mind Transformation – The Seven-Point Mind Training and offered the Vajrasattva Jenang. On 20 September, Rinpoche accepted the request of a Vietnamese group to give teachings at Tushita. You can find the recordings here:

Chökhor Düchen 2025

Interfaith Dialogue

Compassion Rooted in Divine Mercy and the Wisdom of Interdependence: A Shared Ethical Call to Heal a Fragmenting World

On 19 September 2025 we hosted an interfaith conference organised by a Malaysian group. This event was convened as a private gathering of invited guests and five distinguished speakers, each offering reflections from their respective traditions: Geshe Dorji Damdul, Rev. Jonathan Jesudas, ⁠Prof. Imtiyaz Yusuf, Dr. Balachandran Gopal Krishnan and Fr. George Harrison.