Losar 2151 Celebrations

HAPPY LOSAR FROM KAMALASHILA TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTRE  
11 FEBRUARY 2024

Wishing you all a very happy Tibetan and Chinese New Year! May your 2151 Wood Dragon Year be filled with Dharma, love, happiness, and world peace, from Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe and Drogmi Buddhist Institute’s family to yours!

On 11 February Khenpo la led the sangha in the celebrations for Losar. We began with writing all dedications on the sponsored new prayer flags and hung them. The old flags were burnt, and smoke cleansed us all of negative thoughts and actions. We offered barley flour to the local spirits as a way to clear obstacles for the year ahead and create positive conditions. We all then ate kupsey, a delicious Tibetan biscuit to help our speech be sweet throughout the year. In the gompa Khenpo led prayers and Tara recitations. Tara is very positive in every aspect so a great way for us all to start the year in reciting Tara’s mantra. Auspicious rice and tea were offered to the shrine and sangha and a delicious luncheon completed what was a beautiful day and start to the New Year. 

The Tibetan tradition in hanging prayer flags at the beginning of the Tibetan New Year, benefits all beings when the wind touches the holy words of the Buddha that are written on the flags, carrying them to every direction. Hanging prayer flags creates the right cause to benefit all beings and the environment, and in particular the person and family who are raising the flag has enormous benefit.