Preserving and Promoting Tibetan Culture in Canada
New Cooking Classes has been added. Limited Seats are available. To register, use the following link or click here
Week 1 – Art of cooking turkey with Chef Jagger Gordon
Week 2 – Banana Bread and baking tips – Nyima Datok
Week 3 – Ema Datshi – Hot Traditional Chillie with Blue Cheese by Chef Ugen Tsering
Week 4 – Hydrebadi Style Chicken Biryani by Chef Jampa Lhachok
Week 5 – Art of carving Fruits – Chef Sonam Chonden
Week 6 – TBD
Week 7 – TBD
Week 8 – TBD
Thanks to funding from the Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund, led by Employment and Social Development Canada, the Canadian Red Cross has made support available to our community to deliver services and programs to those who are most vulnerable to the health, social and economic impacts of COVID-19. CTAO is providing structured sports, wellness and cultural activities to children, youth and adults who are experiencing increased social isolation due to COVID-19. Please apply under the links below;
Free Beginner Dramnyen Lessons Youth (Ages 9-11) – Thu 6-7 pm
Today is the First Day if Gymnastics Class with Coach Jigme Lhamo Tsering. This class is held every Sat 9-10 am. There are stil some spots available. There are also many programs that you can sign up for.
Www.ctaogc.org/register/
With Funds received under the Red Cross Emergency community fund, CTAO organized a week long youth summer camp with 50 kids aged between 8-16 years. Each day kids started the day with prayers and meditation, followed by a buddhist philosophy class, introduction to traditional music and instruments and language. The afternoons were fun with music, dance (gorshey circle dance) , karaoke and gym time. A trip to centre island was organized on Day 4 and the final day was a potluck onsite due to heavy rains.
༄༅། །ས་གནས་བོད་རིགས་མི་མང་ཡོངས་ལ།
ཆེད་འབུལ། དབུས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་བྱང་ཨ་རི་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་ནས་འབྱོར་བའི་་བཀའ་ཡིག་ནང་དོན། ཁྱབ་ཁོངས་བོད་མི་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དཔྱ་དེབ་དུས་ཡུན་རྫོགས་པ་རྣམས་ཕར་འགྱངས་བྱ་རྒྱུའི་ལས་འགན་ས་གནས་བོད་རིགས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་པར་གནང་ཡོད། དེ་ཡང་གནང་ཕྱོགས་ལམ་སྟོན་ནང་གསལ་དཔྱ་དེབ་དུས་ཡུན་རྫོགས་པ་རྣམས་ལོ་ལྔ་རེ་ཕར་འགྱངས་བྱེད་དགོས་པ་དང་། ཕར་འགྱངས་བྱེད་སྐབས་དཔྱ་དངུལ་གཙང་འབུལ་གནང་ཟིན་པ་དགོས་པ་འཁོད་ཡོད།
གཞན་ཡང་དུས་ཡུན་ཕར་འགྱངས་བྱས་པའི་ཐོ་གཞུང་ཟུར་སྦྱར་རེའུ་མིག་ནང་བང་རིམ་བཞིན་བཀོད་ནས་ཟླ་བ་གསུམ་རེའི་མཚམས་འདི་ག་དོན་གཅོད་ལས་ཁུངས་བརྒྱུད་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་ཁུངས་སུ་འབུལ་དགོས།
དཔྱ་དེབ་དུས་ཡུན་རྫོགས་པ་ཕར་འགྱངས་དགོས་པ་ཡོང་ནས་འགེངས་ཤོག་འདི་ངེས་པར་སྔ་ས་ནས་བཀང་དགོས་པ་ཡིན།
ནད་ཡམས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ཇེ་དྲག་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དང་གཞུང་གི་ལམ་སྟོན་ལ་བརྩི་འཁུར་ཞུས་ཐོག་རིམ་པས་དཔྱ་དངུལ་འདུ་ལེན་དང་། དཔྱ་དེབ་དུས་ཡུན་རྫོགས་པ་དུས་འགྱངས་བྱ་རྒྱུའི་ལས་དོན་འགོ་འཛུགས་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་བཅས་དགོངས་འཇགས་ཞུ།
འདི་ཐོག་དོགས་འདྲི་དང་གསལ་ཁ་དགོས་ཚེ་ཡིག་ཚང་ལ་ཞལ་པར་ཐོག་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་རོགས། ༤༡༦་༤༡༠་༥༦༠༦
ཨོན་ཌེ་རི་ཡོ་བོད་རིགས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་དང་རྒྱུན་ལས་ཐུན་མོང་ནས།
Dear Community Members,
This is to inform all that as per official directives received from Paljor Lekhung of CTA and the Office of Tibet, DC, the local Tibetan Associations in North America are authorized and given the responsibility of giving 5 year extension to the expired Tibetan Green Books. To get the extension, the Chatrel contribution must be up to date. The Associations must send report on GB extension to the Office of Tibet every three month.
Please CLICK HERE to complete the Green Book Extension Form before you come to CTAO Office to obtain the 5 year extension.
In view of the upcoming 2020-2021 CTA election but in compliance with the government COVID-19 guidelines, CTAO will gradually resume Chatrel contribution collection and the GB extension works.
If you have any questions or need further clarification, please call our office at 416-410-5606.
Thank you,
President and Board of
Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario
On Sat Sept 5th CTAO Celebrates 60th Tibetan Democracy Day and 14th Anniversary of the Conferment of Canadian Honorary Citizenship to HH the Dalai Lama. Due to strict covid-19 restrictions, members were required to register via eventbrite for the event and during the event the attendees were manually checked in to the centre. The event was held at the Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre.
Total registered attendees were 49. The day started with the Gyashey group and the monks leading the procession and the portrait of His Holiness was received at the Throne. Not many guests from the NGOs or the Kyiduks had attended today. A minute of silence was observed for all the Tibetan Martyrs and specially for Nyima Tenzin, An unsung Tibetan hero of India’s resistance against Chinese PLA’s aggression.
Long life offering was made by the President along with an opening remark. The President said that this year was special as the year 2020 marks the year of profound gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Keeping the youth engaged and giving them the opportunity and more responsibility to organize events, the Democracy day event was entirely undertaken by the youth.
TCCC Performing Arts led by Gen Topgyal performed the Tibetan and Canadian National Anthem along with the Mangtso Sar-share and a Traditional Tibetan dranyen song – Namkha Ya la. Dylan Lankar, Lhamo Tso were the MC’s for the event.
The chief guest for the event was Mr. Ngodup Tsering, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Washington DC with Special guest Mr. Buchung K. Tsering, VP of International Campaign of Tibet, Washington DC and also 5/50 Tibetan Youth Ambassador Tenzin Norzin from Toronto. Our first two guests spoke live via webex on Tibetan Democracy and the importance of it while Tenzin Norzin spoke about her experience at the Youth 5/50 forom in Dharamsala and also her experience of volunteering at Tibetcorps.
The President also recognized our two heroes Sangyal Kyab and Pema Kunga for their brave acts. Sangyal Kyab marched approximately 800 km from Toronto to Ottawa and then back to Toronto from June 28 to July 20 to raise awareness of Tibet with demands of supporting Sino-Tibet Dialogue, Return of HH the Dalai Lama to Tibet and the release of Panchen Lama, Tashi Wangchuk and political prisoners in Tibet. Pema Kunga did a Marathon run from Ottawa to Toronto running approximately 40-50 km each day for straight 8 days from July 26th – Sept 2nd. CTAO presented the two brave souls with Khatak, Bumpa and Katrin Jeydrel T-Shirt.
Arif Virani, MP Parkdale-Highpark attended the event as well and graced the occasion by once again recognizing Sangyal Kyab and Pema Kunga with kind words and a certificate from his office.
After lunch, the youth interns and the youth committee members had a special presentation on Tibetan Democracy. This was followed by an award presentation to 7 students who participated in the Katrin Jeydrel art competition over the summer.
While the event was taking place on stage, Chatrel and voter registration was simultaneously happening near the stage. We had approximately 150 voters that registered for the Sichi Elections on a single day.
The day would be incomplete without Gorshey. Sonam Chhoenden and his team led the Gorshey for a couple hours. The event was entirely broadcast live as well.
Name of Organization: Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario (CTAO)
Address: 40 Titan Road, Etobicoke,Toronto, Ontario M8Z 2J8
Phone: 416-410- 5606
E-mail Address: info@tcccgc.org
Contact Person: Lhakpa Tsering
Dates for the Program: Sept 9 – 13 (1 week )
Ages: 8 – 16
Expected # of participants: 40 Students
Venue: Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre
Registration Start date: Sun Sept 6 @ 10 am
Brief description on our Organization:
As a community based, not for profit organization, the mission of the CTAO is to promote the rights of all individuals, in particular, those of Tibetan Canadians and to encourage their full and equal participation in Canadian society; to create an environment in this country in which the rights of individuals are fully recognized and protected; to promote understanding and cooperation between Tibetan Canadians and all other ethnic, cultural and racial groups; to encourage and develop in persons of Tibetan descent, a desire to know and respect their history and culture; and to develop community resources through voluntary participation and community networking.
YOUTH SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM DETAILS
Objectives of organizing summer camp for Tibetan Youngsters
Our basic objectives are:
➔ To expose Tibetan youngsters to their culture, language and the essence of Buddhist philosophy.
➔ Introduction to Tibetan traditional songs and music (musical instruments) dance including circle dance (Gorshey)
➔ To create an environment for Tibetan youngsters to develop friendship among themselves
➔ Develop and demonstrate unique Tibetan cultural values of compassion, humility, and respect.
➔ Healthy Bites – Breakfast and healthy lunch served daily – children will learn to cook traditional Tibetan dishes, such momo, mo-thuk, phing-sha and Tingmo etc
➔ To participate in wellness, sports and outdoor activities
The basic structure of the one week camp’s program is research based group activities, assisted by the facilitators. We will have workshops providing background information; guest speakers will be invited to discuss important topics and to interact with the participants (questions and answer opportunities).
CTAO will provide Internet services and reading materials for research and to assist the participants in their various camp activities.
On most occasions, the participants will be divided into small teams, All classes, sports and recreation activities will include leadership building exercises and opportunities for personal development (i.e. rotating group leaders, public speaking roles, role-playing, etc.)
During the pandemic, the requirement of face coverings became essential. Several volunteers within the Tibetan community came forward to sew non-surgical hats and masks. The Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario purchased all of the material such as the cloth and elastics and partnered with the community volunteers to make and distribute several thousand masks and hats to healthcare and non-healthcare workers within the GTA. Volunteers came back from their regular work and then spent their valuable time at home making these masks. With funds from CTAO and the community, along with the partnership with the individual volunteers, we were able to make thousands of masks and distribute to Tibetans and non-Tibetans working across the city at healthcare and longterm care centres.
CTAO in partnership with Norling Tibetan and Hakka Cuisine on 1512 Queen St West are providing 150 hot meals covering all shifts today to Eatonville Care Centre on 420 The East Mall in Etoobicoke. The staff at Eatonville went through some challenging times and we want to let them know that we care. This is a small way by our community to Thank our frontline Healthcare Heroes for their commitment and hardwork during these unprecedented times. We are stronger together and we all have to come together to show our kindness. Thank You once again to our frontline staff and we appreciate all the work you do to keep us safe. We will continue this initiative as we partner with more restaurants and donors.
CTAO in partnership with Norling Tibetan and Hakka Cuisine on 1512 Queen St West are providing 150 hot meals covering all shifts today to Eatonville Care Centre on 420 The East Mall in Etoobicoke. The staff at Eatonville went through some challenging times and we want to let them know that we care. This is a small way by our community to Thank our frontline Healthcare Heroes for their commitment and hardwork during these unprecedented times. We are stronger together and we all have to come together to show our kindness. Thank You once again to our frontline staff and we appreciate all the work you do to keep us safe.
