From Wednesday 18 February 2026 -  05:00pm
To Tuesday 03 March 2026 - 06:00pm

Location: Mahabodhi Stupa

Throughout Losar & the 15 Days of Miracles

Under the beautifully changing evening lights at the Mahabodhi Temple, during Losar and the Fifteen Days of Miracles, Venerable Sarah Thresher will graciously return to Root for the third consecutive year to lead the Losar Prayer Festival. This festival is dedicated to the swift return of our most precious Guru, Kyabjé Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Each evening at 5:00 pm (also streamed online via Root Institute’s YouTube channel), we will gather beneath the sacred Bodhi Tree for one hour to recite prayers and sutras dedicated to Rinpoche during this exceptionally powerful period for accumulating merit. For those attending in person, prayer books will be provided, and a PDF version will be available for online participants.

Now in the third year since Kyabjé Lama Zopa Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away, and nearly a year since His Holiness the Dalai Lama observed that Rinpoche has taken rebirth in Nepal, this is a crucial time for us as students to come together. By doing so, we can help clear obstacles to the swift recognition of Rinpoche’s reincarnation, so that he may continue to offer inconceivably vast benefit to beings as limitless as space.

During Losar, Root will also be leading a 100,000 water bowl offering at the Mahabodhi Temple. The schedule arranged so that participants can comfortably join both practices, with ample time for rest and leisure in between.

Please join us in these offerings, in celebration of and dedication to the boundless, supreme qualities of Kyabjé Lama Zopa Rinpoche. May these practices become the cause for the swift recognition of the unmistaken reincarnation of our sublime spiritual guide.

Prayer book to download & print – for anyone wishing to do these prayers

• An updated copy of the prayer book PDF will be linked from here closer to the time.

Anyone in Bodhgaya is most welcome to join us under the bodhi tree!

• Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels

• Chanting the Names of Manjushri

• Swift Return Prayers, and

• King of Prayers.