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In collaboration with the Indian government, the Loseling Library was constructed in 1973. It was inaugurated and blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Loseling Library has the great privilege of possessing all the scriptures of the Buddha and …

Most of the monks get up early in the morning at around 5 o’clock. After first brushing their teeth and washing their face, they then go for refuge and generate bodhicitta through reciting refuge and bodhicitta prayers. Then they pray …

The Loseling College has eight important religious festivals in a year.1. The First Spring Religious FestivalThe First Spring Religious Festival commences on the second day of the second month of the Tibetan Calendar and it is held for fifteen days. …

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 …