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Registration Deadlines
Deadline 1: June 30, 2026
with a 30% deposit (or 400.00 minimum)
Deadline 2: July 31, 2026
with a 50% deposit (those who paid 30% already pay the 20% difference)
July 31st is the final deadline–please register no later than this date
Information & Registration
It is with great pleasure we announce a trip to Buddhist holy sites in India and Nepal led by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche of the Manjushri Dharma Center and Venerable Thay Kozen of the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple. These two Dharma brothers are inviting their sanghas to join in the journey, not as tourists, but as pilgrims. A pilgrimage is a transformative journey to a sacred place undertaken for spiritual growth, devotion, and personal reflection. We will engage in prayers and practices at each location, and as a group we will practice generosity, intentionally giving to an orphanage, a care home for the elderly, and a holy man, in this case His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The trip will include key destinations in the historic Buddha’s life: Bodhgaya (Buddha’s enlightenment under the sacred Bodhi tree), Varanasi (Buddha’s first sermon at Sarnath & the sacred Ganges river), Kushinagar (Buddha’s parinirvana), Lumbini (Buddha’s birth in Nepal), and Dharamshala (the seat of a living Buddha & capital of Tibetans in exile).
We hope to make this trip relaxed and easy. We begin our pilgrimage with five full days in Bodhgaya, then we have a road trip in a comfortable coach, with travel not longer than 6 hours between sites, and a day to rest in Varanasi and Lumbini. We end with three days in Dharamshala and the great hope of having an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.