A report on the 2014 Pre-Ordination course by Ani Tenzin Paldron (Julie Thomas) on behalf of the 2014 participants The 2014 Pre-Ordination course began during the auspicious period of the Tibetan New Year (Losar) on the evening of March 4th, 2014 at Tushita. 13 participants (8 women and 5 men) travelled from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, […]
March 16 2014 was the Tibetan festival day of Chotrul Duchen, the full moon day that marks the end of the 15 Days of Miracles and this day is considered to be very auspicious for practice. Buddhists and admirers of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the McLeod Ganj area (including Tushita’s staff, volunteers and […]
Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drolma, also known as Khadro la, very kindly accepted our request to give a teaching and Q & A on Sunday, March 9th 2014. Although Khadro-la has been to Tushita many times as a special guest of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, this was the first time that she had given a full […]
Losar-la Tashi Delek! Happy Tibetan New Year! The Year of the Wood Horse began on March 2nd 2014. Tushita’s Tibetan staff celebrated with their annual capse (Tibetan breadsticks) event, making, sharing, and offering gift plates to everyone here, and to HH the Dalai Lama, whose throne is set up on the Dining Room to symbolically […]
Tushita staff and volunteers gathered together in early February to prepare the centre for re-opening – in a climate that reminded us why we have an annual Winter Break! As we braved the cold by running around getting ready, on the 15th of February there was a storm that dropped 6 inches of snow on […]
HH the Dalai Lama will confer a Kalachakra Initiation in Leh, Ladakh, J&K State, India from July 3 – 14, 2014. The initiation to the Kalachakra is one of the most important… because it takes everything into account, the body and the human mind, and the whole external aspect – cosmic and astrological. We firmly believe […]
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 […]