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2025 Ceremony

Five Tibetan Buddhist monks seated at a table, with photographer Peter Tram standing in the background. The monks are Pasang Lama of Karma Choeling; Nyima Gyaltsen, Geshe Sangye Thinley, and Karma Gyasey of Jam Tse Dhargyey Ling; and Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute.

Elaborate offerings of decorated ganachakra torma cakes, butter lamps, flowers, incense, water, food, and drinks are arrayed on a multi-tier altar for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.. Thangkas and banners hang in the background.

Elaborate offerings of a decorated deity torma cake, ganachakra torma cakes, butter lamps, flowers, incense, water, food, and drinks are arrayed on a multi-tier altar for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony. Thangkas and banners hang in the background.

Fruits and towers of water bottles set out for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Volunteers setting out ganachakra offerings for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Laymen and women holding gyaling and conches as part of the sangha welcoming procession for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Incense bearers and people playing the gyaling and conch lead the procession of sangha into the venue for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony. Laypeople holding khatas line the path to welcome them.

Geshe Sangye Thinley of Jam Tse Dhargyey Ling and Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute make their way into the venue for the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Tibetan Buddhist monks Karma Gyasey, Geshe Sangye Thinley, Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche, Nyima Gyaltsen, Pasang Lama, and Huizang hold up electric butter lamps as part of the opening ceremony of the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute being served ceremonial butter tea and sweet rice to celebrate the opening of the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Tibetan Buddhist monks Nyima Gyaltsen, Pasang Lama, and Huizang during the mandala offering ritual at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Shiong-Ming Low, director of Trashi Ganden Choepel Ling offers a symbolic mandala on behalf of the assembly to Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute to request teachings at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Shiong-Ming Low, director of Trashi Ganden Choepel Ling offers the speech receptacle in the form of a Tibetan scripture to Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche as part of the mandala offering requesting teachings at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Tibetan Buddhist monk ven. Huizang of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute wafts incense before the altar as part of the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Two laywomen play a pair of gyaling while a third plays the drum in the background as part of the invocation during the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Cymbals and conches are played as part of the invocation during the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute wears the ceremonial hat of the Northern Treasures (Jangter) tradition while holding five-colour brocades and a bell during the invocation at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute wears the ceremonial hat of the Northern Treasures (Jangter) tradition while Geshe Sangye Thinley and other monks wear yellow hats during the invocation at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

The sangha and assembly at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Ven. Huizang of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute pours blessed water from a ritual vase into the hands of ven. Pasang Lama of Karma Choeling at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Ven. Huizang of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute pours blessed water from a ritual vase into the hands of participants at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Ven. Huizang of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute holds up a plate of ganachakra substances to the altar at the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Tibetan monks reciting prayers during the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Members of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute dancing the sixth movement of auspicious verses from The Ling Dance of Great Bliss Music (Lingdro Dechen Rolmo) at the start of the second session of the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Sangha members watch and clap in time to the members of Padma Ati Buddhist Institute dancing the sixth movement of auspicious verses from The Ling Dance of Great Bliss Music (Lingdro Dechen Rolmo) at the start of the second session of the 2025 100,000 Ganachakra Offerings Ceremony.

Padma Ati Buddhist Institute in Greenlane

Trashi Ganden Choepel Ling in Glenfield

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