There are some melodious prayers which are still recited in the traditional way. From earlier times, these melodious prayers were learned and recited during the Great Summer Festival. However, now, with the annual exam coinciding with the Great Summer Festival, …
1. The 1st to the 15th day of Chu-dawa (the first month of the Tibetan calendar) is the Great Miracle Festival during which the Great Monlam Festival is held.2 In Saka-dawa (the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar), the monks …
The two standing debaters of that year are the ones who must be the answerers during the overnight debate session on the texts of Vinaya and Abhidharma. During the Third Spring Religious Festival they have to be able to answer …
Jang Winter Religious Festival is the name of a festival that is named after a place. There is a monastery called Jang in the upper end of a valley called Jang and this monastery is quite famous in history. It …
Evening special prayer session (Soechoe) is an important activity in Loseling and there is an instruction on Lamrim Delam by the abbot to widen the horizon of general knowledge and especially to tame the students’ mind. The session will begin …
When students study their required texts, in order to get the essence of that teaching and the blessings from the Buddha and one’s own root lamas, they need to take instructions from their teacher and discuss them with their dharma …
1. Exam PhasesStudents must give exams in these subjects: Tagrig, Paramita, Madhyamaka, Vinaya and Abidharma during their respective classes. As for the course duration of these subjects, it is one year for Tagrig, seven years for Paramita, three years for …
In order to preserve and promote the great traditions of the past, and also to fulfill the wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to improve the standard of education in the monasteries, the responsible officials of Loseling College requested …
On the sixteenth day of the sixth month of the Tibetan calendar, all the Loseling monks gathers in their assembly hall and they take the Summer Retreat vows to sharpen their three wisdoms and on the fifteenth of the Seventh …
Standing Debate (Tsoglang) is the typical way of doing debate on chosen topics, during which the participants stand in front of all the monks and debate. It was first initiated by Je Rinpoche himself. During their fourth year of Prajnaparamita …