Losar and a New Year

What a lovely, exciting time of year. The Tibetan New Year in the village is celebrated with such thought and ritual. Perhaps it is partly the newness of it all after so many years of watching the Time Square Celebrations on a television in Canada but Losar, as it is referred to in Tibet…

Blog #9 — Time travel and momos

As I sit down to write this journal, in my freezing, unheated Lhasa apartment, I see groups of people thronging in the streets below, blowing horns and eating fried doughy pastries in celebration of the New Year. When I awoke this morning, the familiar smell of sang had…

Losar Through My Eyes

༄༅།།ལོ་གསར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ། (Happy New Year)!

Losar in Lhasa

February 16

Hello again from Lhasa — it seems as if you are one of the few people not here at the…

A New Year… but is there anything new?

The tantric path

It has been over a month since we have returned from Mustang. Our discovery was more…

Celebrate the Tibetan New Year with the Dalai Lama

Losar preparations and celebrations

I have recently returned from my pilgrimage and I feel refreshed and ready for the new year…

Cairns and the Nature of Impermanence, Interconnection, and Emptiness.

Much has happened in our village lately. The building of the library is now complete…