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June 2023
Lhakar Gorshey at Prince’s Island Park
Time: 6.30 PM - 9:00 PM Venue: Prince's Island Park (Enmax Stage area) Street parking is free after 6 PM in downtown.
Find out more »Lhakar Gorshey at Prince’s Island Park
Time: 6.30 PM - 9:00 PM Venue: Prince's Island Park (Enmax Stage area) Street parking is free after 6 PM in downtown.
Find out more »July 2023
༧སྐུའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ / His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Birthday Celebration – Chorten (Sangsol)
Tea and snack will be served There will be Trunkar soccer match at Shouldice Park @ 2PM
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Program - His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 88th Birthday Celebration, Saturday, July 8, 2023 at Optimist Park Site #12 ཚོུད། TIME མཛད་རིམ། PROGRAM ༡༡།༠༠ 11 AM མི་མང་འཛོམས་རྒྱུ། Gather at Optimist Athletic Park Site# 12 (5020 26 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3E 0R4) ༡༡།༡༥ 11:15 AM ༧རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་པར་གདན་འདྲེན་ཞུ་རྒྱུ། His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Portrait Procession ༡༡།༢༠ 11:20am ༧རྒྱལ་བའི་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསུང་རྒྱུ་དང་། གསོལ་ཇ་འབྲས་བསིལ་འདེགས་འབུལ་ཞུ་རྒྱུ། Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s long life and serving ceremonial sweet rice and tea ༡༡།༣༥ 11:35 བོད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ཁེ་ཎ་ཌའི་རྒྱལ་གླུ་འབུལ་རྒྱུ་དང་སྦྲགས། སློབ་གྲྭའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་རྣམས་ནས་དྲུག་བཅུའི་དབྱངས་ལྡན་འབུལ་རྒྱུ།…
Find out more »February 2024
Losar: Tibetan New Year’s Day
Lo-sar means New Year in Tibetan. It is the first day of the first month of the Tibetan lunar calendar. Losar celebration is one the most festive periods of the year observed with a lot of religious, cultural and merrymaking events for a week or two. Losar celebration is the time when one could witness and taste the best of the Tibetan culture and delicacies. Men, women, and children are in the best of their traditional attires. Colourful prayer flags…
Find out more »March 2024
Tibetan Uprising Day
On March 10, 1959, tens of thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, rising up against China’s illegal invasion and occupation of their homeland. They surrounded the Potala Palace, the home of the Dalai Lama, to protect his life and the future of the Tibetan nation. Tens of thousands were killed when Chinese soldiers opened fire but the Tibetans refused to surrender, and many risked their lives to ensure the success of the Dalai Lama’s escape…
Find out more »May 2024
July 2024
Trungkar: H.H. The Dalai Lama’s Birthday Celebration
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet. At the age of two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the…
Find out more »September 2024
Tibetan Democracy Day
It was on 2nd day of September in 1960 that the fruit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s gift of the excellence of the democratic system of government to the Tibetan people was realized with the establishment of the Tibetan parliament which was made up of elected representatives from all the three provinces as well as the religious orders of Tibet. And so, on this universal calendar day, Tibetans mark the anniversary of that momentous occasion.
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