What: Monlam: Prayer Service for Self-immolation Martyrs of Tibet 
Date: Saturday July. 6th 2013 
Where: @ Sakya Gompa
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm

2013 Sponsors: (JAN) Thupten Sherpa and Thinley (FEB) Dorjee Khando (MAR) Kelsang and Sherab Dorjee (APR) Tsering C. Yuthok (MAY) Tsewang Chamatsang (JUN) Yangchen Dolkar and Orgyen Dolma (JUL) Lama Tenzin and Thupten Jampa Family

TAW monthly prayer (first Sat every month) will continue for this new year, if your interested in sponsoring, contact our boardmember to sign up.

As we continue to hear the heart breaking news of Tibetans burning themselves for the worlds attention. One cannot help but to feel pain and sorrow of the situation in Tibet. No other in Tibetan history have we witness such desperate viral acts of self-immolations in the name of freedom and for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama back to Tibet. It is an extremely critical time in our history now, more than ever a time for us all to unite and show solidarity to our breathens.  Please do join us for once a month prayer service to all the recent pawos and pamos of Tibet. Light refreshments will be served after each services, any donations will be greatly appreciated. We like to thank Sakya Monastery for allowing us to hold these prayer gatherings.


THANK YOU to our 2012 Monlam Sponsors: April 7th: Lobsang and Dorjee Khando Family, May 5th: Pemba and Lobsang family, June 2nd: Jampa Jorkhang Family and Lobsang Therchen Family, August 4th: Thupten/Chonzom Nyishar family, Sept. 1st: Tsering Yuthok, Oct. Tenzin Yangchen/Thinley Dorjee ~ Nov. Tsering Choedon ~ Dec. Kelsang and Sherab Dorjee

(*SPECIAL AUDIENCE FOR LOCAL TIBETAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON MAY 8th 6:30pm @ GOMPA)

WHITE MAHAKALA INITIATION 
Given by H.H. Sakya Trizin
Tuesday, May 7th, 7:00 PM

Location: Sakya Monastery Shrine Room
Limited Seating Available
Please arrive early 

Tickets:  
Adults: $50 each
Seniors: (65+) $45 each
Children: (Under 12) $15 each  
Monastics: Free (please contact the Monastery to register)

Please Preregister!
Mail by May 1st
In person or thru Paypal by May 5th

SCHEDULE:
5:45 pm: Early Check-in
6:00 pm: H.H. Sakya Trizin arrives. Attendees are invited to participate in a processional katag greeting
7:00 pm: White Mahakala Initation begins

Known in Tibetan as Gonpo Yi-Shin Norbu (Wishfulfulling Tatagata Gem), this is Mahakala in his wealth deity form. White Mahakala is an emanation of Noble Chenrezi (Skt: Avalokitshvara) and thus is the single embodiment of compassion of all the Buddhas. We pay homage and invoke this Six-Armed Protector in order to remove material and spiritual poverty and to bestow wealth and to liberate us into a state of Buddhahood.

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Source Northwest Dharma News (www.northwestdharma.org)

“Tibetan Resettlement Project, 20 Years Later” written by Jamyang Dorjee and Photos by Kurt Smith.    

(Some of the Tibetan Resettlement Project sponsors gather with board members of the Tibetan Association of Washington.)

Kesang Chokyi cannot believe it’s been 20 years since she first stepped off a plane and arrived in Seattle from India. As part of the U.S. Tibetan Resettlement Project, she was among 1,000 Tibetan refugees living in India and Nepal, who were selected through a lottery to immigrate to the United States.

Most of the immigrant Tibetan families, like Chokyi’s, have grown numerically and economically since then. Not only have they been able to re-unite with their families…a few of them have also been able to help their relatives and their families immigrate as well.

At an annual Seattle event this past November to mark the anniversary of the awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan community also invited sponsors and volunteers of the Tibetan Resettlement Project to a dinner and cultural performance, to show their appreciation and gratitude for their commitment and help.

Susan Gleason, one of the key sponsors who w as instrumental in the Seattle chapter of the Tibetan Resettlement Project, humbly said at the event, “I was grateful to just get the opportunity to help the Tibetans.”

(Kesang Chokyi and her niece Tenzing Kyizom, 6, at a Tibetan gathering.)

Tsering Yuthok, president of the Tibetan Association of Washington, gave a speech and thanked all the sponsors involved. She added, “Through all the years that Tibetans have lived in the area, I have often proudly proclaimed, even when I was working at the mayor’s office, that ‘We came with nothing, and not a single Tibetan I know is on welfare or public assistance.’”

The association now runs an active community calendar dotted with community events, festivals, fairs, and regular prayer sessions.

A thriving Tibetan language and culture class, established by the association, meets Sundays to teach children to read, write and speak Tibetan. The children also learn Tibetan history, various basic Buddhist prayers and traditions, Tibetan songs, dances and even plays, which they perform at community gatherings.

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What: 54th Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day!

When: Sunday, March 10th 2013

Where: Front of Westlake Mall - Time: 10:30am - 3:00pm 

More details: www.seattletyc.org 

Background info: History Leading Up to March 10, 1959 (source: ICT) 

“Truth is our only Weapon” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.