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2008: Activities by Our Teachers at Tsechen Kunchab Ling
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Tibetan New Year – Losar Celebration and Bridge of Light Ceremony
Losar Tashi Deleg! Venerable Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen and the Sangha of Tsechen Kunchab Ling celebrated Losar at the Temple on February 9, 2008 with prayers and lighting candles for health, happiness, and success in the coming year. Offerings of light in centers across the country also lit a candle at both His Holiness Sakya Trizin’s temple in Walden
,
NY
and at His Holiness’ monastery in
Dehra Dun
,
India, creating a Bridge of Light for the New Year.
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New Temple's Main Buddha
Image Is Consecrated
On Descent from Heaven Day, a very large, beautiful image of the Buddha Shakyamuni was filled with blessings and consecrated by Venerable Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen and Venerable Lama Dorje Gyaltsen, under the guidance and blessings of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin. The Buddha image will be the main statue in the new shrine room. It is attended on the right and left by statues of Sariputra and Moggolana. It was sponsored by Her Eminence Jetsun Kushog Chime Luding, and cast over a period of an entire year by craftsmen in
Nepal
who were personally chosen by His Holiness Sakya Trizin. CLICK HERE FOR MORE AND ALSO FOR ACTIVITIES AT THE TEMPLE IN 2007.
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Other Major Activities in 2008
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Vesak Prayer Festival JUNE 15, 2008.
On a beautiful sunny Sunday just before Vesak, the shrine room and grounds of Tsechen Kunchab Ling were filled with many monks and nuns and over 1000 temple friends and members of the Regional Tibetan Women's Association of New York and New Jersey, who came to offer hundreds of butter lamps, prayer flags, and candles with aspirations for the long life of all holy lamas, as well as the happiness and well being of all sentient beings, particularly those in Tibet, China, and Myanmar. A wonderful happy day was spent in Dharma activities, picnics, and prayers.
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Prayer Flag Raising Festival ~ SUNDAY APRIL 20, 2008
Tsechen Kunchab Ling's annual prayer flag raising festival was a joyful event, and people from all around the country participated. A new main flagpole surrounded by two dozen new vertical flags and flagpoles were raised, in addition to hundreds of strings of prayer flags for health, happiness and success of all sentient beings. Many prayers were offered as the flags were raised and the temple grounds are beautiful with many flags! Many thanks to all who made the event such a wonderful success.
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Vassar Students' Temple Weekend
APRIL 4-6, 2008
Over twenty men and women students from Vassar college spent two nights and three days at the temple in a fieldwork activity for college credit jointly sponsored by the Vassar Office of Fieldwork, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, and the Department of Religion. Students learned Buddhist philosophy and meditation, made prayer flags and prayer stones, and participated in the temple's daily prayers, work, and other activities. Everyone had a wonderful time.
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Comments from student evaluation forms included: This immersion program is one of the most amazing opportunities I have had as a Vassar student.” “This program is ideal. We learned to make real Tibetan crafts with the monks and nuns, listened to them, laughed with them, ate wonderful food with them, drank lots of great chai tea, and learned to meditate with them.” “This is a unique learning experience full of wonder and amazing people, kindness and warmth.” “This was definitely worth my time and much more. I would love to stay here for a year.”
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