Special Losar (Tibetan New Year) Retreat
Led by Lama Lobtsul
Friday, Feb. 5 - Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016
Start the Lunar New Year right by clearing obstacles and reversing negativities! Lama Lobtsul will lead a Yidam Vajrakilaya practice from Friday through Sunday, with a special fire offering on Sunday. With these practices, all obstacles to spiritual progress will be cast out, issuing in and welcoming all auspiciousness and happiness for the New Year, and summoning good fortune and longevity.
The Sunday tsog and fire offering will be preceded by a special offering of Gertuk (the traditional Tibetan New Year Soup of nine ingredients), sponsored by Lama Lobtsul, at noon. On Tuesday evening, following a Green Tara practice, there will be a vegetarian Losar Dinner potluck.
SCHEDULE
Friday, Feb. 7
7pm - 9pm
Vajrakilaya transmission and practice
Saturday, Feb. 6
10am - noon
Vajrakilaya practice
2pm - 4pm
Vajrakilaya practice, with Tsog
(bring vegetarian food, fruits, snacks, drinks, candles, incense, flowers, for the tsog)
Sunday, Feb. 7
10am - noon
Vajrakilaya practice
Noon - 2pm
Gertuk offering from Lama Lobtsul
2pm - 4pm
Vajrakilaya Tsog, Prajnaparamita Practice of Repelling Maras (from Chagme Ragas Asya's collected rituals), Torma Offering, Long Life Blessing
(bring vegetarian food, fruits, snacks, drinks, candles, incense, flowers, for the tsog, and additional Vajrakilaya torma offerings suck as cookies, breads, or grains, to be offered outside)
Tuesday, Feb. 9
7pm - 9pm
Green Tara practice and Losar Dinner Potluck (vegetarian)
PLEASE NOTE:
In preparation for the retreat, there will be a Temple Cleaning Weekend on Saturday, Jan. 30, from 10 am to 2pm, and on Sunday, Jan 31, from 2pm to 4pm.
There are always opportunities for service and accumulating merit, and there's plenty of work to do in the temple and outdoor Guru Rinpoche enclosure. If you have any free time, please come by and pitch in. Even an hour (or half an hour) can go a long way!
RETREAT COSTS:
$10 for Friday
$50 each day for Saturday & Sunday
or $108 for entire retreat (paid at initial registration)
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