Losar | Commemorating Lama Yeshe
Join us for our Losar celebration and welcome the arrival of the Tibetan New Year. This auspicious event is an opportunity to rejoice and engage in practices, allowing us to abandon negativities and open our hearts to positive aspects. We invite you to start this year’s Losar with a commemoration of Lama Yeshe, the late founder of the FPMT. Following some memories, Lhagsam facilitators will lead practices in the gompa and on Zoom.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 18 – 2026
TIME: 7.00 – 9.00 pm CET
WHERE: Facilitators at Gablerstrasse 51, Zurich and live on Zoom
LANGUAGE: English
LEVEL: Everyone is welcome!
ROOT TEXT: Download here
LHAGSAM PRAYER BOOK: Click here.
This year, Losar falls on February 18 and is followed by The Fifteen Days of Miracles, which continues through Chötrul Düchen on March 3. According to the Tibetan calendar, Losar will mark the first day of the year of the Year of the Fire Horse 2153.
The Fifteen Days of Miracles are powerful time for Buddhist practice. All fifteen days starting on Losar are merit-multiplying days, when the merit of virtuous actions performed on these days is multiplied by 100 million. For the FPMT, Losar is a special time as it commemorates the anniversary of FPMT founder Lama Yeshe’s passing at dawn of Losar in 1984, and thus we also celebrate the lineage of the Gelug-founder Lama Tsongkhapa.
Program:
7.00: Welcome: Prayers from the FPMT prayer book.
7.10: Commemorating Lama Yeshe, watching clip.
7.20: FPMT, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche – our lineage, and Losar.
7.30: Calm Abiding Meditation
7.50: The Two Wings of a Bird: Wisdom and Compassion
8.05: Tonglen Meditation
8.30: Lama Tsongkhapa: “In Praise of Dependent Arising” (read more)
8.45: Dedication and Long-Life Prayers
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