Lawa Khangtsen Peace Tour
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Welcome to the Peace Mandala Tour

This tour is organized and sponsored by Lion's Roar Dharma Center, a Buddhist temple in Sacramento, California, in the tradition of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Lion's Roar was founded by Geshe Losang Gyatso, a monk from Sera Jey Monastery, now located in India. He was from a subtemple of Sera Jey called Lawa Khangtsen. This temple is currently on a tour to come to the United States to teach the Dharma of peace.

This website is devoted to sharing all things related to the Peace Mandala Tour. Pictures, updates, and our calendar are all available here. The site will continue changing as the weeks go by and more venues participate.

Please take a moment to browse our website, ask questions, and maybe even consider becoming a host. With your help, we can really do something remarkable. We look forward to getting to know you and becoming friends.

On behalf of Lama Yeshe Jinpa, Spiritual Director of Lion's Roar Dharma Center; Lama Tashi, chief administrator of Lawa Khangtsen; and their five brother monks, thank you.

Sera Jey Lawa Khangtsen World Peace Tour

Invites us to become peacemakers

Bodhicitta is the heart and cause of peace. The World Peace Tour is an educational journey — each stop is shaped in collaboration with host institutions who invite their communities to learn peacemaking, reconciliation, forgiveness, and nonviolence. Sand mandalas, teachings, meditation, and dialogue are among the ways that invitation takes form.

Led by Geshe Tashi Lama and the Lawa Khangtsen monastics on tour. Collaboration with hosts, not performance for audiences.

Monks creating a sand mandala during a World Peace Tour residency
Monks at work on the Peace Mandala
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Four ways to meet the tour

Attend a community-hosted stop, co-create a residency, give, or start learning — education and participation, not entertainment.

  • Attend

    Join a host community for teachings on peacemaking, reconciliation, and nonviolence near you.

    Next stops

  • Host

    Co-create an educational residency with the monks — your venue, your public, your team's participation.

    Host a stop

  • Give

    Support travel, programs, and education at Lawa Khangtsen.

    Ways to give

  • Learn

    Bodhicitta, forgiveness, and what to expect as a newcomer to the teachings.

    Start learning

On the road

Next stops

November 2026 – March 2027. Cities are announced as hosts are confirmed.

  • November 7-10, 2026

    White Plains

    White Plains, NY

    Saint Bartholomew / San Bartolomé Episcopal Church

    A free four-day bilingual and interfaith residency at Saint Bartholomew / San Bartolomé Episcopal Church, featuring sacred sand mandala creation, teachings, meditation, music, lama dance, and community dialogue on peace.

    Stop details

  • November 11-15, 2026

    Skillman

    Skillman, NJ

    Princeton Yoga & Wellness

    A five-day Twenty-One Taras sand mandala residency at Princeton Yoga & Wellness, with daily meditation, an evening teaching, a film night, throat singing and Cham sacred dance, and a closing dissolution ceremony and peace walk.

    Stop details

  • November 18-22, 2026

    Providence

    Providence, RI

    First Unitarian Church of Providence

    A five-day Twenty-One Taras sand mandala program at First Unitarian Church of Providence, with daily prayers and meditation, teachings, a film night, chanting and Cham sacred dance, and a closing dissolution ceremony and peace walk.

    Stop details

  • November 23-27, 2026

    East Greenwich

    East Greenwich, RI

    Westminster Unitarian Church

    A five-day Twenty-One Tara sand mandala program at Westminster, with meditation, teaching, Thanksgiving fellowship, and closing ceremonies.

    Stop details

  • November 28, 2026 – December 1, 2026

    Philadelphia

    Philadelphia, PA

    Tibetan Families of Pennsylvania

    The monks spend time with Tibetan families in Pennsylvania, chanting the Twenty-One Taras and Medicine Buddha prayers, making tormas, and reading the sutras.

    Stop details

Full schedule

Bodhicitta

The awakened heart, in plain words

Bodhicitta is the wish that all beings be free from suffering — and the commitment to help make that real, starting with our own mind.

The tour exists to train peacemakers through teaching and practice — education, not entertainment. Hosts and visitors participate together; programs are collaborations, not performances put on for a passive audience.

About the tour

Programs hosts can shape

Hosts choose from these offerings to build each stop — peacemaking education first; sand mandala, sacred arts, talks, and more among the options.

All offerings

Meet the monks

The touring party from Lawa Khangtsen at Sera Jey Monastery.

All monks on tour

Meet the teachers

  • Geshe Lobsang Gyatso seated in teaching robes, holding a bell and vajra before a shrine

    Geshe Lobsang Gyatso

    Founding teacher

    Geshe Lobsang Gyatso was born in Tibet in 1932 and was the head teacher and co-founder of Lion's Roar Dharma Center in 1992. He received full training as Lama and taught at Sera Jey Monastery in Tibet as well as in India. He traveled and taught in the United States for 12 years and was particularly connected to the Kalachakra teachings. Geshe Lobsang Gyatso died in Pacific Grove, California in May 1998. Students throughout the world continue to benefit from his teachings.

  • Lama Yeshe Jinpa Rinpoche in maroon and gold robes

    Lama Yeshe Jinpa Rinpoche

    Spiritual director of Lion's Roar Dharma Center

    Lama Yeshe Jinpa is the spiritual director and resident teacher of Lion's Roar Dharma Center which he co-founded with Geshe Losang Gyatso in 1992. In 1995, Lama Jinpa received direct heart/mind transmission from Geshe Gyatso after 25 years of Dharma practice and study. He is one of the few western lamas thus far recognized within the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan or Vajrayana Buddhism, the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

    Learn more about Lama Jinpa

Lawa Khangtsen at Sera Jey

Sera Jey is one of the great Gelug monasteries re-established in exile in South India. Within it, a khangtsen is a regional house where monks study, practice, and support one another — like a college within the larger university.

Lawa Khangtsen is the house from which this touring party comes.

About Sera Jey & Lawa Khangtsen

From the road

Stories from the road

All stories

Photos & videos from the tour

Support the tour and the monastery

Your gift helps build the International Peace Library and hostels at Lawa Khangtsen and carry programs to more cities.

Ways to giveHost the monks