Kalu Rinpoche Ser Cho Ling 2022

KSC’s three lamas and eight sangha members traveled to Ser Cho Ling, a rural retreat center near North Fork, California, to celebrate Losar (Tibetan New Year) with Kalu Rinpoche, lineage holder for the Shangpa Kagyu lineage. We received the Mahakala empowerments, and participated in four days of practice designed to clear the energies of the old year, to make space for a new lunar year to begin. The host community and their leader, Wangchen Rinpoche, provided a warm welcome and generous facilities for about 60 people to attend and celebrate in the sunny countryside of the Sierra Foothills. On our last day, we all celebrated the new year with the Niguma Empowerment, strong wishes for a peaceful and beneficial new year, and the traditional tossing of tsampa (roasted barley flour) into the air!