Lawa Khangtsen Peace Tour
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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

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

Tour dates will appear here once cities are announced.

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

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.

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