Please join us via Zoom welcoming the start of the Tibetan New Year, the year of the Iron Ox.  The Iron Ox is a fitting symbol of perseverance, energy, honesty and positivity.  The Iron Ox is associated with carefulness, loyalty and effort.   

Geshe Lobsang and Geshe Namgyal will begin the New Year celebration with early morning Losar Tsetor prayers, Palden Lhamo puja. Palden Lhamo is considered the official protector deity of Tibet.

Friday, February 12, prayers begin at 5:30 am, MST. 

Celebrate the new Tibetan year with prayers for love, compassion and wishes for health, happiness and peace.

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Traditionally in Tibetan society, the day before new year houses are thoroughly cleaned and organised in anticipation.  Food is abundant.  New clothes are laid out for the holiday. 

Early Losar, New Year,  morning, before the sun rises family get up, shower, and put on new clothing. The family places offering substances on the family altar; tormas, flowers, fruit, bread, saffron water, incense, candles and so forth.  Traditionally the first food eaten on New Year morning is Dresil a sweet rice dish, often served with Kapse.

Together families visit their local monastery, offering actual offerings and those imagined.  Later, back at home  neighbours drop by, share food and their good wishes for the coming year.

During the evening families join in reunion for the New Year dinner feast.

Traditionally at Emaho Center, after Losar morning prayers we serve Kapse and Dresil.  Kapse is a kind of fried cookie.  Dresil is a sweet rice.  If you’d like to celebrate Losar with Dresil, here’s the recipe. Traditionally Tibetans add the root Droma to the rice.  Droma is a snall root that grows in the grasslands throughout Tibet.  It is like a tiny sweet potato with similar taste.  Unfortunately, Dorma is difficult to obtain outside Tibet.  Dresil is delicious with or without it.

Jangchub’s recipe:  
Dresil without Droma
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup rice basmati rice cooked in 12oz. water
Six tablespoons salted butter
1/2 cup cashews
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup brown sugar
Preparation
Cook the rice. 
Mix all together while the rice is still warm.

Tashi Delek

We wish everyone a prosperous year of the Iron Ox.  Please stay safe.  We look forward to a year of healing, teachings and events.  May this year bring us safety back together again.

May you be happy in the here and now and may you finally achieve definitive goodness,”  His Holiness the Dalai Lama