Saka Dawa – Celebration of Buddhas Birth Enlightenment and Parinirvana

Date: Sunday, 31/05/2026 7:00 pm

7pm – 8.30pm

Saka Dawa is the most important Tibetan Buddhist festival day, celebrating Lord Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. Buddhists around the world engage in many auspicious and merit-making activities such as sponsoring or engaging in beneficial pujas, practices, and prayers; and making extensive offerings to teachers, holy objects, and auspicious charitable activities.

Saka Dawa will be celebrated at Tibetan Buddhist Institute with a Guru Puja ritual.

The Guru Puja – “Lama Chopa” in Tibetan – is a practice in the Gelug tradition of making offerings to the spiritual master and includes a review of all the points of the combined sutra and tantra path to enlightenment. It is a beautiful ritual and there are many different tunes sung throughout a session.

All welcome.