COMING ACTIVITIES AT TSECHEN KUNCHAB LING

February 13 - 14 - Tibetan New Year Celebration - All are welcome to join us anytime during the day to celebrate Losar with prayers, blessings, and delicious Tibetan New Year food.

February 21 - Losar Lhapso Celebration sponsored by the New York United Sherpa Kyidug Association. For more information: >CLICK HERE

March 13 - 14 Samantabadhra Prayer Meditation and Merit Weekend - All are welcome to join in recitations of this famous aspiration prayer and meritorious temple activities. Come for the weekend or a few hours as your schedule allows.

April 24 - 25 - Matchless Compassion Meditation and Merit Weekend - A famous teaching and meditation by the ancient Indian master Virupa still bestows the blessings of changing difficult relationships into loving kindness and compassion. Come for the weekend or a few hours as your schedule allows.



Sunday Dharma Teaching by Telephone:
Dial in on Sunday from 8:00 to 9:00 pm
Even if you don’t live near the temple, you can hear Ven. Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen give Dharma teachings by telephone every Sunday evening in your own home for the price of a long-distance call. Topics this winter will be The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, and The Tripitaka. Contact mnsakya@mac.com for more information on how to dial in.


Daily Activities at the Temple
Green Tara and Mahakala practices are performed daily at Tsechen Kunchab Ling, as well as long life prayers and prostrations for the health and success of all of the teachers who uphold the Dharma and the practices, for Dharma practitioners - especially temple members - and for all sentient beings.

Traditional religious arts are practiced by our Tibetan Artist in Residence including making prayer flags and carving prayer stones including entire sutras, MANI and other mantras, and prayers. Additional butter lamps are lit and special rituals are also performed upon special request.

Please call the temple at 301-906-3378 for specific times if you would like to join us in any of these daily activities.


Tsechen Kunchab Ling's Artist in Residence
carving prayer stones


Prayer flags are created by hand according
to traditional Tibetan religious arts methods.