Tibetan New Year (Losar) 2011. Losar is a family-oriented holiday, and the Tushita family celebrated with a capse party to mark the start of The Year of the Iron Rabbit. Capse is a Tibetan sweet treat of fried bread sticks which our kitchen staff enjoy making tons of every year. Every member of the community got their own New Year Capse plate on the 5th of March (picture 1).  

Losar is then by followed by a 15-day period which is considered to be very auspicious for practice, so the members of our Pre-Ordination Course recited the Sutra of Golden Light every day during this time until the final festive day, The Day of Miracles. 

On the 3rd day after Losar, we followed tradition and had an eventful morning putting up fresh Prayer Flags all over the property; Venerable Jampa was the star of the day, fearlessly climbing tree after tree (picture 2), much to the delight of the monkeys who were waiting to play on their new swings and ropes.

The morning ended with a Puja with Venerable Robina Courtin and the monks from Gyumed Tantric College, culminating with the annual Tsampa-flour throw! (picture 3).

Happy New Year!

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