Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. On the first day of the Tibetan New Year, Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen guides practitioners in generating a strong motivation to offer Guru Pooja. He emphasizes the importance of dedicating this auspicious occasion for the benefit of all sentient beings without exception, framing the offering within the principle of dependent arising. The teaching draws on Tibetan New Year traditions, including the practice of making offerings and prayers for good fortune, and connects personal practice to the broader web of cause and effect that shapes both individual and collective wellbeing.
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Teacher: Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen
Collection: Unclassified
Date: 2011-03-04
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~128
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# 2011-03-04 **Collection:** Audio Recordings — Unclassified **Duration:** 141.2 minutes **Words:** 128 **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3 **Corrections applied:** 0 **Transcribed:** 2026-03-08 00:26 — So it would be good to generate a strong motivation to offer the Guru Pooja on this first day of the Tibetan New Year for the benefit of all sentient beings as vast as space. And as much…
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# 2011-03-04
**Collection:** Audio Recordings — Unclassified
**Duration:** 141.2 minutes
**Words:** 128
**Model:** Deepgram Nova-3
**Corrections applied:** 0
**Transcribed:** 2026-03-08 00:26
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So it would be good to generate a strong motivation to offer the Guru Pooja on this first day of the Tibetan New Year for the benefit of all sentient beings as vast as space. And as much as this is the first day of the year, there is a particular dependent arising. And therefore, we should generate the motivation to offer the, guru puja to to our teacher, to all the holy beings assembled for the sake of all mother sinful beings without exception.
This is the prayer for good fortune for the New Year in Tibet, which is made through offering tampa and, wishing good luck and good fortune for the New Years to one’s father, to one’s mother, in which she explained this last year.