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DEAR READER,
We wish you good physical and spiritual health for this year,
and may you spend each day of this year in a wholesome
way.
May the Teachings of the Buddha, the true source of peace
and happiness for all, spread throughout the world.
May the Holders of the Teachings live long and may their
activities flourish.
May all hunger, thirst, disease, and conflict - may all suffering
perish and all beings experience harmony and peace of
mind.
May Compassion and Wisdom grow everywhere!
is pleasant there will always be a restless longing for something
THE MEANING OF BUDDHISM else, which prevents any lasting peace and happiness from finding
by Geshe Rabten its way into our lives.
However, if this self-concern is decreased, hatred and attachment
will likewise diminish in strength. And to the degree in which these
factors are reduced we will notice an increase in our concern for
others, as well as an increase in our own contentment and peace
of mind.
Buddhism is neither a strange tradition peculiar to certain foreign Where can the means be found to transform the mind in this way?
lands, nor a collection of dry words contained in books and They can be found in the Buddha’s teachings. Thus the methods
libraries. Such opinions fail to discern what in fact Buddhism is. shown by the Buddha are extremely valuable for anyone truly
seeking happiness, whether Buddhist or not. Buddhism should
All creatures in this world, whether human or animal, are constantly therefore be understood as a method for overcoming mental
motivated by the same basic aims: the achievement of happiness suffering and for increasing the sense of well-being for both self
and the removal of suffering. But although our entire existence is and others.
lived in pursuit of these goals we never fully achieve them. The
real, lasting happiness we desire eludes us and in the depths of We all know how much we appreciate being treated kindly by others.
our minds we continue to suffer. In our search for satisfaction we In the same way it should be realised that others too experience
construct roads, schools, hospitals and so forth. Although these much joy upon being treated kindly by us. When concern for
afford us some relief they are unable to remove the very roots others grows strong, self-concern, hatred and attachment will
of physical and mental pain. On the contrary, we observe how diminish, one’s mind will experience calmness and joy, and others
mental unrest tends to increase with technological progress. But will receive true benefit. All conflicts between individuals, groups of
why, despite our enormous efforts, should this be the case? people, and even nations will be resolved as soon as concern for
others takes the place of concern for oneself.
We generally consider the source of all our problems to be
external to ourselves. We then try to overcome and manipulate Concern for others is therefore the source of all individual and
these conditions. Of course, external conditions affect our lives collective well-being, both secular and religious. To achieve this is
and cause us to suffer, but it has to be recognised that the root the essence of Buddhism.
cause for our painful experiences is deeply embedded within
our own minds. The external situations are only contributing
circumstances. In this light it becomes clear that no matter how
much we change the external world we will never arrive at a truly
satisfactory solution. With these words the activities of the Rabten Choeling monastery
were announced in 1977 by the Venerable Geshe Rabten
But what is it within us that causes us to continually suffer? It is Rinpoche. And with this objective the activities of all the Rabten
self-concern, the attitude of cherishing oneself while disregarding monasteries and study centres, as well as the Edition Rabten
others. In dependence upon self-concern attachment to one’s own publishing service have been carried on since then.
interest and resentment to the interests of others arise. Upon this
basis all conflicts ensue. If, however, self-concern were absent, If you see a true benefit in such efforts for today’s society and
no conflicts could ever occur. As long as the mind is dominated would like to support these aims, please be assured that your
by self-concern we shall never be satisfied. Even if our situation help is greatly appreciated.
DHARMA FESTIVALS ་་་་་ ASTROLOGICAL YEAR-SIGNS AND DAYS
་་ ་་ ་་་་་་་་་་
Chotrul Duechen: Day of Buddha Shakyamuni‘s Great
Miracles In Tibetan astrology the days of the week are classified
into harmonious and disharmonious days according to an
Saga Dawa: This means ‚Month of Saga‘, which is the fourth
month of the lunar calendar. On the full moon day of this individual‘s year of birth. So-called Luck-days and Life-days
month, Buddha Shakyamuni showed his deed of taking birth, are harmonious. These days are generally considered as
attaining enlightenment, and going into Parinirvana. particularly suitable for starting projects and celebrating
auspicious events. Anti-days, or disharmonious days, are
Choekor Duechen: Buddha Shakyamuni turned the Wheel
of Dharma for the first time. generally considered as unsuitable for such events. It is
something to be considered in case of choice.
Lha Bab Duechen: Buddha Shakyamuni‘s return from the
realm of the devas. Year of birth: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
་་ 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Gaden Ngamchoe: Day of Je Tsongkhapa‘s Parinirvana. 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
Parinirvana days: The days of passing away. 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Trungkar days: Birthdays of masters. Year-sign: Mouse Bull Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake
་་ ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
Those days are very special days for the practice of Dharma.
Any positive or negative actions performed on these days Luck-day Wed Sat Thu Thu Sun Tue
་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
have a strong multiplying effect.
Life-day Tue Wed Sat Sat Wed Fri
་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
Anti-day Sat Thu Fri Fri Thu Wed
TIBETAN FESTIVALS ་་་་་ ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
Losar: Tibetan New Year. First day of the lunar calendar. It is
celebrated in every auspicious and joyous way. Year of birth: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Zam Ling Chi Sang: Day of the Sang-Offering (ritual smoke- ་་ 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
offering) to all the Protectors. 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Sangpo Chuzom: The Day of the Ten Good Omens. 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
This is a day for transforming all inauspicious situations into 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
auspicious ones. Special day for merrymaking.
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Year-sign: Horse
་ Sheep
་ Monkey
་ Rooster
་ Dog
་ Boar
་
་་
Luck-day Tue Fri Fri Fri Mon Wed
SPECIAL DAYS ་་་་་་ ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
་་ Rishi-Star: This special astrological constellation causes the Life-day Fri Mon Thu Thu Wed Tue
natural water-sources on earth to be transformed into nectar- ་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
like liquids. It is therefore particularly beneficial to take baths
on these days. Anti-day Wed Thu Tue Tue Thu Sat
་་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་
SYMBOLS ་་་་ ELEMENT COMBINATIONS
Earth-Earth: Auspicious.
Full Moon ་ The double encounter of earth brings power together.
Power lets all wishes be achieved.
Half Moon ་ ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
New or Black Moon ་ Water-Water: Auspicious.
The double encounter of water brings nectar together.
Total eclipse of the sun ་་་་ Nectar increases life‘s force.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Partial eclipse of the sun ་་་་
Total eclipse of the moon ་་་་ Earth-Water: Auspicious.
The encounter of earth with water brings youth together.
Partial eclipse of the moon ་་་་ Youth brings great happiness.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Monastic Sojong or Confession ་་
Fire-Fire: Auspicious.
Guru-Puja and Tsok-Rituals ་་་་ The double encounter of fire brings increase together.
Dharma festivals ་་་་ This will increase food and wealth.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Tibetan festivals ་་་་
Wind-Wind: Auspicious.
The double encounter of wind brings perfection together.
Perfection brings quick accomplishment of one‘s wishes.
THE ENERGY OF ELEMENTS ་་་་ ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Earth
་ Fire-Wind: Auspicious.
The encounter of fire and wind brings strength together.
Water
་ Strength brings all good omens.
་ ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Fire
་ Earth-Wind: Inauspicious.
Wind The encounter of earth and wind brings incompatibility.
Incompatibility exhausts food and wealth.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
In Tibetan astrology the energies of the four elements, earth, water,
fire and wind, are described to influence our days. It is either the Water-Wind: Inauspicious.
The encounter of water and wind brings disharmony
double strength of one element or the union of two elements that
together. Disharmony separates friends.
predominates. According to the compatible or incompatible nature of ་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
the elements the days will be auspicious or inauspicious for particular
activities. It is something to be considered in case of choice. Earth-Fire: Inauspicious.
The encounter of earth and fire brings burning together.
Burning creates suffering.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
Fire-Water: Inauspicious.
The encounter of fire and water brings death. Death robs
life away.
་་་་་་།༐་་་་་་།
January 2010 ་་ ༡༡ - ་་ ༡༢
1 Fri New Year
16
2 Sat
17
3 Sun
18
4 Mon
19
5 Tue
20
6 Wed Epiphany
21
7 Thu
22
8 Fri
24
9 Sat
25
10 Sun
26
11 Mon
27
12 Tue
28
13 Wed
29
14 Thu
29
15 Fri
30
16 Sat
1
17 Sun
2
18 Mon
3
19 Tue
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20 Wed
5
21 Thu
6
22 Fri
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23 Sat
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24 Sun
9
25 Mon
10
26 Tue
11
27 Wed
12
28 Thu
13
29 Fri
14
30 Sat
15
31 Sun
16
February 2010 ་་ ༡༢ - ་་ ༡
1 Mon
18
2 Tue
19
3 Wed
20
4 Thu
21
5 Fri
22
6 Sat
23
7 Sun
24
8 Mon
25
9 Tue
26
10 Wed
27
11 Thu
28
12 Fri Thanksgiving to Dharma-Protectors
་། 29
13 Sat
30
14 Sun Tibetan New Year
་། 1
15 Mon
2
16 Tue
2
17 Wed
3
18 Thu
4
19 Fri
5
20 Sat
6
21 Sun
7
22 Mon
8
23 Tue
9
24 Wed
10
25 Thu
12
26 Fri
13
27 Sat
14
28 Sun Buddha’s Great Miracles
་་་། 15
March 2010 ་་ ༡ - ་་ ༢
1 Mon
16
2 Tue
17
3 Wed Rabten Parinirvana
་་་། 18
4 Thu
19
5 Fri
20
6 Sat
21
7 Sun
22
8 Mon
23
9 Tue
24
10 Wed
25
11 Thu
26
12 Fri
27
13 Sat
28
14 Sun
29
15 Mon
30
16 Tue
1
17 Wed
2
18 Thu
3
19 Fri
4
20 Sat
5
21 Sun
6
22 Mon
7
23 Tue
8
24 Wed
9
25 Thu
10
26 Fri
11
27 Sat
12
28 Sun
13
29 Mon
14
30 Tue
15
31 Wed
17
April 2010 ་་ ༢ - ་་ ༣
1 Thu
18
2 Fri Good Friday
19
3 Sat
20
4 Sun Easter
21
5 Mon
22
6 Tue
23
7 Wed
24
8 Thu
25
9 Fri
25
10 Sat
26
11 Sun
27
12 Mon
28
13 Tue
29
14 Wed
30
15 Thu
1
16 Fri
2
17 Sat
3
18 Sun
4
19 Mon
5
20 Tue
6
21 Wed
7
22 Thu
8
23 Fri
9
24 Sat
11
25 Sun
12
26 Mon
13
27 Tue
14
28 Wed
15
29 Thu
16
30 Fri
17
May 2010 ་་ ༣ - ་་ ༤
1 Sat
18
2 Sun
19
3 Mon
20
4 Tue
21
5 Wed
22
6 Thu
23
7 Fri
24
8 Sat
25
9 Sun
26
10 Mon
27
11 Tue
28
12 Wed
29
13 Thu
30
14 Fri ✽ Great Lamrim Teachings
1
15 Sat ✽
2
16 Sun ✽
3
17 Mon ✽
4
18 Tue ✽
5
19 Wed ✽
6
20 Thu ✽
7
21 Fri ✽
8
22 Sat ✽
9
23 Sun ✽ Whitsun
10
24 Mon ✽
11
25 Tue ✽
12
26 Wed ✽
13
27 Thu ✽ Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment, Parinirvana
་་་། 15
28 Fri ✽
16
29 Sat ✽
17
30 Sun ✽
18
31 Mon ✽
19
June 2010 ་་ ༤ - ་་ ༥
1 Tue ✽
19
2 Wed ✽
20
3 Thu ✽
21
4 Fri ✽
22
5 Sat ✽
23
6 Sun ✽
24
7 Mon ✽
25
8 Tue ✽
26
9 Wed ✽
27
10 Thu ✽
28
11 Fri ✽
29
12 Sat ✽
30
13 Sun
1
14 Mon
2
15 Tue
3
16 Wed
4
17 Thu
5
18 Fri
7
19 Sat
8
20 Sun
9
21 Mon
10
22 Tue
11
23 Wed
12
24 Thu
13
25 Fri
14
26 Sat Offering to all Protectors
་་་། 15
27 Sun
16
28 Mon
17
29 Tue
18
30 Wed
19
July 2010 ་་ ༥ - ་་ ༦
1 Thu
20
2 Fri
21
3 Sat
22
4 Sun
23
5 Mon
24
6 Tue H.H. Dalai Lama birthday
་་་་་། 25
7 Wed
26
8 Thu
26
9 Fri
28
10 Sat
29
11 Sun
30
12 Mon
1
13 Tue
2
14 Wed
3
15 Thu Buddha’s first turning of the Dharma-Wheel
་་་། 4
16 Fri
5
17 Sat
6
18 Sun
7
19 Mon
8
20 Tue
10
21 Wed
11
22 Thu
12
23 Fri
13
24 Sat
14
25 Sun
15
26 Mon
16
27 Tue
16
28 Wed
17
29 Thu
18
30 Fri
19
31 Sat
20
August 2010 ་་ ༦ - ་་ ༧
1 Sun
21
2 Mon
22
3 Tue
23
4 Wed
24
5 Thu
25
6 Fri
26
7 Sat
27
8 Sun
28
9 Mon
29
10 Tue
30
11 Wed
1
12 Thu
2
13 Fri
4
14 Sat
5
15 Sun
6
16 Mon
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17 Tue
8
18 Wed
9
19 Thu
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20 Fri
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21 Sat
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22 Sun
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23 Mon
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24 Tue
15
25 Wed
16
26 Thu
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27 Fri
18
28 Sat
19
29 Sun
20
30 Mon
21
31 Tue
22
September 2010 ་་ ༧ - ་་ ༨
1 Wed
23
2 Thu
24
3 Fri
25
4 Sat
26
5 Sun
27
6 Mon
28
7 Tue
29
8 Wed
30
9 Thu
1
10 Fri
2
11 Sat
3
12 Sun
4
13 Mon
6
14 Tue
7
15 Wed
8
16 Thu
9
17 Fri
10
18 Sat
11
19 Sun
12
20 Mon
12
21 Tue
13
22 Wed
14
23 Thu
15
24 Fri
16
25 Sat
17
26 Sun
18
27 Mon
19
28 Tue
20
29 Wed
21
30 Thu
22
October 2010 ་་ ༨ - ་་ ༩
1 Fri
23
2 Sat
24
3 Sun
25
4 Mon
26
5 Tue
27
6 Wed
29
7 Thu
30
8 Fri
1
9 Sat
2
10 Sun
3
11 Mon
4
12 Tue
5
13 Wed
6
14 Thu
7
15 Fri Trijang Choktul birthday
8
16 Sat
9
17 Sun
10
18 Mon
11
19 Tue Trijang Parinirvana
་་་། 12
20 Wed
13
21 Thu
14
22 Fri
15
23 Sat
16
24 Sun
17
25 Mon
18
26 Tue
19
27 Wed
20
28 Thu
21
29 Fri Buddha’s return from deva-land
་་་། 22
30 Sat
23
31 Sun
24
November 2010 ་་ ༩ - ་་ ༡༠
1 Mon All Saints
25
2 Tue
26
3 Wed
27
4 Thu Rabten Choktul birthday
28
5 Fri
29
6 Sat
30
7 Sun
1
8 Mon
2
9 Tue
4
10 Wed
5
11 Thu
6
12 Fri
6
13 Sat
7
14 Sun
8
15 Mon
9
16 Tue
10
17 Wed
11
18 Thu Ling Choktul birthday
12
19 Fri
13
20 Sat
14
21 Sun
15
22 Mon
16
23 Tue
17
24 Wed
18
25 Thu
19
26 Fri
20
27 Sat Ling Parinirvana
་་། 21
28 Sun
22
29 Mon
23
30 Tue
24
December 2010 ་་ ༡༠ - ་་ ༡༡
1 Wed Tsongkhapa Parinirvana
26
2 Thu
27
3 Fri
28
4 Sat
29
5 Sun
30
6 Mon
1
7 Tue
2
8 Wed
3
9 Thu
4
10 Fri
5
11 Sat
6
12 Sun
7
13 Mon
8
14 Tue
9
15 Wed
10
16 Thu
10
17 Fri
11
18 Sat
12
19 Sun
13
20 Mon
14
21 Tue
15
22 Wed
16
23 Thu
17
24 Fri
18
25 Sat Christmas Day
20
26 Sun
21
27 Mon
22
28 Tue
23
29 Wed
24
30 Thu
25
31 Fri
26
January 2011 ་་ ༡༡ - ་་ ༡༢
1 Sat New Year
27
2 Sun
28
3 Mon
29
4 Tue
30
5 Wed
1
6 Thu Epiphany
2
7 Fri
3
8 Sat
4
9 Sun
5
10 Mon
6
11 Tue
7
12 Wed
8
13 Thu
9
14 Fri
10
15 Sat
11
16 Sun
12
17 Mon
13
18 Tue
14
19 Wed
15
20 Thu
16
21 Fri
17
22 Sat
18
23 Sun
19
24 Mon
20
25 Tue
21
26 Wed
22
27 Thu
23
28 Fri
25
29 Sat
26
30 Sun
27
31 Mon
28
February 2011 ་་ ༡༢ - ་་ ༡ ་་
1 Tue
29
2 Wed
30
3 Thu
1
4 Fri
2
5 Sat
2
6 Sun
3
7 Mon
4
8 Tue
5
9 Wed
6
10 Thu
7
11 Fri
8
12 Sat
9
13 Sun
10
14 Mon
11
15 Tue
12
16 Wed
13
17 Thu
14
18 Fri
15
19 Sat
16
20 Sun
17
21 Mon
19
22 Tue
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23 Wed
21
24 Thu
22
25 Fri
23
26 Sat
24
27 Sun
25
28 Mon
26
March 2011 ་་ ༡ ་་ - ་་ ༡
1 Tue
27
2 Wed
28
3 Thu Thanksgiving to Dharma-Protectors
་། 29
4 Fri
30
5 Sat Tibetan New Year
་། 1
6 Sun
2
7 Mon
3
8 Tue
4
9 Wed
5
10 Thu
5
11 Fri
6
12 Sat
7
13 Sun
8
14 Mon
9
15 Tue
10
16 Wed
11
17 Thu
13
18 Fri
14
19 Sat Buddha’s Great Miracles
་་་། 15
20 Sun
16
21 Mon
17
22 Tue Rabten Parinirvana
་་་། 18
23 Wed
19
24 Thu
20
25 Fri
21
26 Sat
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27 Sun
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28 Mon
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29 Tue
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30 Wed
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31 Thu
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