The annual winter program for local children at the Surmang shedra starts each year in late November or early December and ordinarily concludes at Losar (Tibetan New Year). This year, for the first time, the program was extended past Losar, concluding on February 29. This year’s children’s program was the

Chöseng Trungpa Rinpoche, the abbot of Surmang Dutsi Til monastery, has decided to postpone the consecration and grand opening ceremony for the monastery’s shedra (monastic college) and new lhakang (shrine hall) until the summer of 2017.