Losar Celebrations at Lam Rim - Fri 28th February, Sat 1st & Sun 2nd March 2025 (Onsite)

Join us at Lam Rim!

With ritual, music, dance, art and food and help change the prayer flags from old to new!

Help celebrate Losar 2025: Tibetan New Year 2152 and welcome in the Year of the Wood Snake

Programme

Friday 28th February, 2025

• 2.00p.m.   Arrival from 2.00p.m. and check-in for those staying on a residential basis

• 3.30p.m.   Welcome and Introduction to Losar - Tibetan New Year

• 4.30p.m.   Polishing of butter lamps to symbolise traditional new year cleaning

• 5.30 p.m.  Mountain Smoke Offering performed by Ngakma Shé-zér Khandro and Ngakpa Namgyal Dorge (warm clothes as we’ll be outside!)

• 7.00p.m. Supper

• 8.00p.m.  Help (karma yoga) with clearing away, washing up, cleaning and re-setting dining room and getting ready for everyone to enjoy Saturday’s celebrations

• 8.45p.m.   Evening meditation

Saturday 1st March, 2025

• 8.00a.m.   Morning meditation

• 9.00a.m.   Breakfast

• 10.00a.m.  Introduction to the year of the Wood Snake

• 10.30a.m. – 1.30p.m.

  • in groups of 2 or 3, equipped with string, scissors, ladders and flags, renew the Lam Rim grounds with colour and prayers

  • gather in the kitchen and try your skills in making delicious momos

  • be creative - contribute to making a colourful community snake collage

  • make your own Losar greeting card

  • create butter lamps for light offerings

  • hunt and gather up wood to create a bonfire

• 1.30p.m.   Lunch of traditional Tibetan foods  

• 3.00p.m.   Engage in a DharmaDanza workshop with Paola Jardim

• 4.00p.m.   Learn and enjoy Tibetan musical instruments and Yogic Song with Ngakma Shé-zér

• 5.30p.m.  ‘Cast out the old and bring in the new’ and join in the Tibetan Fire Ceremony – accompanied by bells, drums, cymbals and long horns

• 7.00p.m.   Supper

• 8.00p.m.  Karma yoga) with clearing away, washing up, cleaning and re-setting dining room

• 8.45p.m.   Evening meditation

Sunday 2nd March, 2025

• 8.00a.m.   Morning meditation

• 9.00a.m.   Breakfast

• 10.00a.m. Karma yoga - clearing away, washing up, cleaning and re-setting dining room

• 11.00a.m.  Preparation of food for puja and lunch

• 12.15p.m.  Puja

• 1.30p.m.   Lunch

• 3.30p.m.  Close of weekend celebrations and fond farewells

This is a lovely event for everyone to enjoy, including families with children.  Please note that anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times as we cannot take responsibility for minors.

You are welcome to stay the whole weekend on a residential basis or alternatively come along for any number or combination of days or sessions.

For accommodation and catering purposes (residential and day visitors) we do need you to book your place.

Download a copy of the programme here.

Cost: Donations to cover lunch and refreshments throughout the day will be gratefully received.

Venue: Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Pentwyn Manor, Penrhos, Raglan, Monmouthshire, NP15 2LE

Who:  EVERYONE WELCOME!  - This is a lovely event for everyone including families with accompanied children.

Registration: To help us to cater for refreshments each day (including lunch), please register your place below. Donations to cover lunch and refreshments will be gratefully received on site each day or please feel free to donate here and mention Losar in the details box.

Want to stay over? Try our ‘pot luck’ rates

With supper and breakfast included, our ‘pot luck’ room rates are intended to make staying at Lam Rim as affordable as possible.

We have a range of single, twin and three-bedded rooms with sole use or shared bathrooms. At just £37 per night including supper and breakfast, with our ‘pot luck’ rate, you will be allocated accommodation in any of our rooms, from sole occupancy to a maximum of 3 persons sharing. Please note, that our 3 person rooms are very large spacious bedrooms.

Prefer to choose a particular room?

If you would prefer to choose your room and meal options, then we are pleased to share with you our room rates card showing the various options and prices: Link

Dedication Prayers

During the day we will perform a light offering ritual. Anyone can request names for dedication whether you attend in person or not. Please complete the form here: Dedication Form

Important Note: Our system uses PayPal to take donations. If you do not have a PayPal Account you can pay as a Guest. Please click the link ‘Try Another Way’ , then follow instructions for ‘Pay by Debit or Credit Card’.