Getting ready for the last day of Yamantaka puja. Lama Tashi Topgyal (left) and Lama Yeshe Gyamtso (right)
Getting ready for the last day of Yamantaka puja. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
Getting ready for the last day of Yamantaka puja. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche and Sonam Chotso
Getting ready for the last day of Yamantaka puja. Lama Jim Kukula and Lama Atilio Marconi
Last day of the pre-Losar Yamantaka puja
Last day of the pre-Losar Yamantaka puja
Last day of the pre-Losar Yamantaka puja
Last day of the pre-Losar Yamantaka puja
Last day of the pre-Losar Yamantaka puja
There will be fire
Last day of the pre-Losar Yamantaka puja
Tsok song
Distribution of tsok
Mandala offering to Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
Body, speech, and mind offering to Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
Body, speech, and mind offering to Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
A quick break
Taking the Yamantaka palace apart
Bardor Tulku Rinpoche concluding the seven-day Yamantaka puja
Sonam Chotso (Bardor Rinpoche's wife) and Chime Lama (Bardor Rinpoche's daughter)
Getting ready to remove the palace of Yamantaka from the shrine room
Getting ready to remove the palace of Yamantaka from the shrine room
The palace of Yamantaka in which all the obstacles have been confined is being thrown into the fire
Symbolic burning of all obstacles before the new year begins
Symbolic burning of all obstacles before the new year begins
Starting fresh. Tomorrow begins a new year!