Welcome to the Pansangha Shambhala Day/Losar page for the Year of the Earth Mouse. Please send photos, artwork, poems, and audio files from your center, to .

Words from our teachers
(in alphabetical order)

His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa: Losar greeting card on Kagyuoffice.org

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche speaking from New York City on Losar. To listen, visit Losar podcast on Siddharthasintent.org.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche addressed the Shambhala Community from Halifax on Shambhala Day. Watch the video on Shambhala.org.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche addressed the Nalandabodhi Community from Seattle on Losar. Listen to the audio on dpr.info.

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The I Ching reading for the Shambhala Community for the year of the Earth Rat is number 39, Obstruction. There were no changing lines.


Listen to John Sell's commentary on the I Ching reading for the Year of the Earth Rat.


Listen to John discussing last year's I Ching reading.

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Offerings

From DKD

Nine intrepid souls braved the -3 degrees (F) weather to attend the Shambhala Day festivities at Dorje Khyung Dzong Retreat Center in Southern Colorado. Three retreatants plus several locals joined Bruce and Melissa Robinson hosting their twelfth Shambhala Day as Resident Directors of DKD. One friend, Susan Dean, drove over an hour through blowing snow from Trinidad CO to attend. Locals were happy to hear the Sakyong’s address and commented that they felt so much closer to him because of his retreat at DKD last summer. After the broadcast and practice of the Sadhana of Mahamudra, we all enjoyed a bountiful Pot Luck Lunch. - Melissa Robinson

The Rat

I am the self-proclaimed acquisitor
I am a link yet function as a complete unit.
I aim at encompassing heights
and strike my target,
sure and steady.
Life is one joyous journey for me.
Each search must end with a new quest.
I am progress, exploration and insight.
I am the womb of activity.
I AM THE RAT
[From the Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau, ©2007]

Happy New Year

Grey ocean waves grey beyond grey
Hidden sun red beyond red
Dogs bark and bark and bark
as snow falls on broken trees, the swath of beach and into the water, all the way out as far as you can see
Oblivious, ceaseless and so perfect,
Joy beyond your name.

-Meg Federico, Halifax