Pictorial coverage of some of the many amazing events at the Tibetan Buddhist Society in late 2023 and early 2024
A marvellous gathering in November 2023 to celebrate the recent identification of Geshe Loden’s reincarnation, Loden RinpocheSpecial teachings with Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, pictured above and below, in January including the Three Principal Paths and the Green Tara and White Tara initiations.
In early January a New Year garden luncheon, was held to celebrate the start of the traditional Australian new year.
Volunteers, Parama (left) and Lisa (right), kindly prepared a delicious Bengali feast.
The annual pilgrimage by Vietnamese Buddhists was early this year. About 500 pilgrims from our friends at Quang Minh Temple in Braybrook in early February 2024 and also our regular visitors from Sunshine Temple.
The New Year Meditation Festival in late February to mark the Tibetan new year drew monks and nuns from many parts of Victoria.
Venerable Geshe Rabten, the resident teacher from Atisha centre in Bendigo later gave us his first talk in the temple on the festival theme, Compassion in Action, supported by his translator, Venerable Lobsang Dorje.
We are especially blessed when Venerable Geshe Doga, senior teacher from Tara Institute (pictured at the head of the table) joined us for the New Year Blessing Ceremony.
A Tibetan Buddhist Society social get-together, held at Cafe Bliss, the wonderful coffee shop located next to Tara Institute, in February. Participants, pictured in the Tara Institute gompa, had an enjoyable time.
