Happy Year of the Tiger to All! Join Us Next Week for Special Prayers

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Each year we celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New Year in the Tibetan Calendar with special prayers to bring blessings into our dharma practice and our lives. 


This year, we will welcome the Year of the Tiger, according to the Tsurphu Lunar Calendar, on Wednesday Feb. 2.

Monday evening Jan. 31 at 7 PM – To clear away the obstacles of the old year we will have a special EVENING Green Tara Chant online through Zoom. Lama Kathy will preside and our regular Green Tara Umdze (chant leader) Marilyn Stephen will lead the chant, which will last about 80 minutes.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88616696341?pwd=eFdlMzk3MDUrRkhNUVlKc0c3eUo4dz09
Meeting ID: 886 1669 6341Passcode: 515800

Tuesday evening Feb. 1 at 6:30 PM  – We will add the Smoke Offering of the Mountains to our usual Chenrezig sadhana. Both will be on the same Zoom channel; you can join at any time. Want to do a smoke offering of your own? Simply light a stick of incense and place it outdoorsin a flowerpot filled with sand (or an incense burner). We will offer the smoke to the awakened ones and all the local deities and protectors, asking for blessings in the New Year.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87564734195?pwd=OGV3NnlPZ3JuNWV5ZUg2N2o1ei9FQT09
Meeting ID: 875 6473 4195Passcode: 262197

Wednesday morning Feb. 2 at 9 AM – We will welcome the New Year and start our year off right – with special prayers for blessing and auspiciousness. Bring a candle – electric or natural – because we will recite the Lamp Offering prayers, along with aspirations and blessings.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89302115616?pwd=NEtWZ0VkV2dZcXFGdUV4cXR0WW1idz09
Meeting ID: 893 0211 5616Passcode: 670215


And there’s even more opportunities to accumulate merit. Read on!

The first two weeks of Losar coincide each year with the Great Occasion of the Buddha’s Performance of Miracles (Chötrul Duchen, in Tibetan) on, one of four Sacred Days on the Karma Kagyu tradition’s yearly calendar. This means that the benefit and blessing of any practice we do during this “Waxing Moon of Miracles” (sometimes called “The Month of Miracles”) is multiplied millions of times. This year, Chötrul Duchen will take place on Wednesday Feb. 16. So this is a good time to plan in extra dharma offerings and practice!

LOSAR MATCHING FUND CAMPAIGN
Since it is so meritorious to give offerings to dharma causes during the first 15 days of the Tibetan New Year, we are offering our dharma friends the opportunity to donate to KTC in a special “Matching Funds” campaign. Since we are working on closing out our construction accounts and beginning repayment of our $200,000 construction loan, the funds raised in this special campaign will be dedicated to KTC’s area of greatest need, whether that is construction, loan repayment, or operations.

Each donation will be matched dollar for dollar by an anonymous donor up to $5,000. Campaign will begin on Wednesday Feb. 6 conclude on Wednesday Feb. 16.

You can give through our website:https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YMTXX46F2X7AG&source=url

Or on our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/ColumbusKTC

Either way, you’ll be benefitting all sentient beings with the blessings of dharma.

May all beings benefit!

BIG NEWS! KTC Is Coming HOME!

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It’s been nearly six years since a fire destroyed the Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling Tibetan Buddhist Center, and after years of fundraising, discussion, meetings with building experts and officials, and work with project managers and contractors, we are happy to say the new KTC building is a reality! 

This past Friday, 16 months after the first shovels of earth were turned over on our Rich Street property, city building officials gave their final approvals, and officials of the Hanlin-Rainaldi Construction Co. gave KTC Director Kim Miracle the keys to our new building. KTC is home at last!

Through the generosity of so many people and the hard work of Kim, Lama Kathy, Lama Tom, Lama Adam and all the KTC Board volunteers, past and present – including Michelle Evans, Bethany Dwinnell, Justin Fitch, Gina Kim, Marjorie Hill Langston, Lance Moyer, Steve Phallen, Tonya Schroeder, Michael Smith, Stacey Berry and Eric Weinberg – we hope to begin moving into the new building in the next few weeks.

Some work still needs to be completed on the building, and we still lack some appliances and furniture, but we look forward to introducing all of our dharma friends to the new building in the next month or so.

We had hoped to have a Sangha Meeting THIS Wednesday, Jan. 12, to explain our reopening plans, but the COVID pandemic – especially with the arrival of the particularly contagious Omicron Variant – has caused us to rethink our plans. 

As such, we regret that we will need to POSTPONE our Sangha Meeting until after the Board can consult the physicians and volunteers on our Reopening Advisory Group to see if we need to revise our opening plans. 

We are sorry to have to put this important meeting on “pause” for a week or so, but we hope to have better plans to both introduce you to our new home, while at the same time keeping everyone safe. 

In the meantime, let’s all do a “happy dance” in our respective homes to celebrate the momentous milestone!!!  Many thanks to each of you for your support on the six-year journey!