SHAMAYD TSOKPA,NEW YORK

Serving Free Meals to the Homeless in New York

Today TVA NY members served food for a shelter house in New York on this very auspicious day of HH Dalai Lama's B'DAY. Besides, we had a wonderful time talking, painting and eating with the homeless people. They were such beautiful people and they were so happy that they asked us to come back tomorrow :-)                                               

Vegetarianism

sakadawa tsey 15 tsok monlam video

Tashi Delek!!! to everyone Here we are going to do in Visak day ( Saga Dawa )
Tibetan date 13 and 15 cox its very special day Buddha Shakyamuni’s Birth , Enlightenment and Parinirvana day.so all this prayer for wrold Peace , success and as usaual  is making offerring to the all those sangha’s during this puja and  Healthy and clear all the obstracles, and those who lost their life and those who are still hospitalize due to the earthquakes and etc. May everyone get well as soon and be Peaceful..So please make a strong prayer and wishes for everyone.
AndRTWA, NY & NJ,TC of NY & NJ,
RTYC, NY, TVANY, deeply thank you very very much and appreciate to you ,all this Virtues credits goes to the sponsers and supporters who contibute and make this happen thank you very very much once again .
with much much love and prayer

"Saka Dawa Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana, which takes place on the 15th day of the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar. Saka Dawa is traditionally celebrated for one full month; any virtuous acts performed during this month are multiplied 100,000 times.

There will be a special Tsok offering for Saka Dawa Duchen on Thursday, May 27st, 2010at 5.30 pm location is #37-11 57th st new york 11377 (57st 37av) The resident monks will first give a brief introduction on the significance of the day, and then conduct the Guru Puja that follows.This event is free and open to the public. All are invited and welcome to attend!

Location Map and Driving Direction

The Buddha Shakyamuni took birth as a prince of the Shakya clan in India. He achieved enlightenment at the age of thirty-six and entered Mahaparinirvana at the age of eighty-one. These three great events took place on the same day of the year, over 2500 years ago, which we celebrate at the season of Wesak.

Thursday May 27, 2010 All day

Saka Dawa is one of the most important sacred Buddhist days. The whole fourth Tibetan month or specially (May 14th to june 12th) is celebrated. On the full moon day of this month, May 27th is the full moon Buddha had performed three most important deeds, he was born, attaining enlightenment and parinirvana. During this month people place special emphasis on dharma practice like circumambulation of Monasteries and Stupa, prostrations, taking precepts, reciting mantras, offering mandalas, doing sadhanas and saving animals lives, etc. All the merits will be multiplied 100,000 times from our dharmapractices.

<B>Special Prayer Gatherings for Kyigudo Earthquake Victims</B>

The Tibetan Community of New York & New Jersey is co-organizing several mass prayer gatherings for the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Kyigudo (ch: Jiegu) in Eastern Tibet. As you all are aware, an estimated 1,700 people have been killed and more than 12,000 people are injured.

We would like to request Tibetans in New York and New Jersey area to please attend the prayer gatherings on the following important days (Marking 1st week, 4th week, 7th week of the earthquake and the 15th day of Saka Dawa):

Monday, 4/19 - Starting at 5:30pm
Monday, 5/10 - Starting at 5:30pm
Thursday, 5/27 - Starting at 5:30pm
Sunday, 5/30 - Time and location TBD

Queens Palace
37-11 57th Street
Woodside, NY

Organized by:
Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, NY
Tibetan Community of NY & NJ
Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, NY
Tibetan Volunteers for Animals, New York

For more info about the prayer services and ways to donate, please click here

Yesterday, may 16 2010  Tibetan Volunteers for Animals,New York embodied the dual identity to lead the third annual Veggie Pride Parade through the streets of Manhattan. Trailing a police escort and walking in front of hundreds of enthusiastic herbivores, it was a good opportunity to participate in the Veggie Pride Parade 2010. There were around 15 Tibetans who attended the parade. The event went great and we distributed 30 t shirts printed with practice compassion go vege and tvany.org at the back. “Eat Your Veggies, Not Your Friends!” was the main theme line of the parade. The event was organized by Pamela Rice, who frequently had control of a megaphone during the parade. While some of the cheers seemed corny (e.g, “Hey, ho, we’re so cool. Being veggie truly rules!”). Pamela, sonam wangdu, Tenzing kunsang and other megaphone users tried to express a wide variety of reasons for embracing vegetarianism, including cruelty to animals, health, the environment, and many more.  Practice compassion go vegetarian, which offered a different reason to go vegetarian for each of one 

TsoPemaNursery school

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our Individual Contributors and Volunteers, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. You are all the true heartbeat of the. program. You make it happen for all the prepared the Tibeta

TIBET IN HARLEM 2: Origins March 14–20, 2010

ColumbiaUniversityTIbetinHarlemwebs>ite 
 www.columbia.edu/cu/news/08/03/tibet.html  >  Robert Barnett

Tibet in Harlem 2: Origins is the second annual series of Tibetan and Tibet-related films at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem. This year’s program showcases a collection of rarely screened early films – both documentary and fiction – by some of the most important Tibetan and Chinese filmmakers working in Tibet today. Suggested Admission to all events: $12. Online tickets include an additional $1 service charge. Proceeds from each event will be contributed to NGOs and organizations working inside Tibet, including Rabsal, the Tibet Village Project and Machik. Presented by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University, Maysles Cinema, Machik and the Kham Film Project. Series Programmers - Robert Barnett, Lynn True, Nelson Walker. Supported by The Henry Luce Foundation, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and other organizations.
All receptions sponsored byTibetan Volunteers for Animals, NY

To all of Volunteers,

n food for the film fest we serve, for all the healing that takes place and the confidence they leave with. Because you all ...want this needed program to happen, it does and it is successful. thank you. We couldn't do it without you! tvany See More....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eev118qlBNs

NYC AIDS awareness program 

TVANY double dhamaka. TVANY is sponsoring the vegetarian snacks for the reception at the Tibet in Harlem 2, film week and also making the food for the http://www.choicehivaids.ork/ PARTY in New York. TVANY requests all it fans in nyc to suport HIV/AIDS cause for the tibetan community and also encurage other fellow tibet...ans to party and suport a great cause. Tibetans living in New York City came together on March 20 to raise fund for the CHOICE - HIV/AIDS Initiative which undertakes HIV/AIDS awareness program and provides care and support to the Tibetan people living with HIV/AIDS (TPLHA).

Spearheaded by Tsering Choden, a Program Coordinator at New York City Epidemiology Scholars, the fund raising event attracted host of Tibetan professionals, artists and activists, who contributed their time, energy, and money in making the event a “great success.”

Dr. Tenzin Namdul, the Executive Director of CHOICE, spoke on the growing urgency of HIV infection in Tibetan community and how it is like a “ticking bomb” in Tibetan health care scenario. According to Dr. Namdul, HIV/AIDS cases have tripled in Tibetan society in last three years and he warned that “if we do not implement any strategic program now, we can easily lose our grip in combating this alarming spread of HIV.”

Dr. Kunchok Dorjee, who has done great deal of work on hepatitis B and tuberculosis, spoke candidly about its cause and the mode of prevention. Over the past decade, hepatitis B has also been a cause of concern for Tibetan health care think-tank due to its high incidence rate in Tibetan community.The event also saw the intriguing calligraphy art based on theme of “HIV/AIDS in Tibetan community” by Lobsang Chophel. All the exhibited paintings were put on auction for the benefit of HIV/AIDS patients.CHOICE awareness and fund raising program in North America was first organized in Boston last year in August by Tibetan Association of Boston, led by Tenzin Nyesang and her family. Tenzin Nyesang, who is currently working with Massachusetts department of public health is a strong supporter HIV/AIDS direct action campaign and had done a behavioral survey among exiled-Tibetans in India in 2008, Dr. Namdul thanked New York based Tibetan Volunteers for Animals, New York,www.tvany.org, Phayul.com, Ex-Herbert