Celebrating the Buddha on Lha Bab Duchen with Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche! - Tuesday, Nov. 11 - 4:00-6:30pm EST
- Pema Dragpa
- Nov 11
- 1 min read
Lha Bab Duchen commemorates Buddha Shakyamuni’s return to the human world after teaching his Mother in the god realms, where he spent three months giving teachings and repaying her kindness.
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Practice texts: We will use the Extended Buddha Sadhana. (Which has the Buddha Sadhana we practice regularly, plus many additional prayers recalling and praising the the Three Jewels, arhats, and bodhisattvas.)
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Lha Bab Duchen celebrates Buddha Shakyamuni’s return to Earth from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three after teaching Dharma for several months to the gods, including his mother, Mayadevi, who had died a week after Buddha’s birth and been reborn there. As a merit multiplying day, the karmic results of actions done on this day are multiplied 100 million times. This amazing result is taught in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.
“The Buddha’s main teachings were on nonviolence, love, and compassion, and on how to bring out the good qualities within ourselves and others by exploring our nature and the nature of our environment. He taught about how to live in harmony and peace. In order to do this, one simple teaching is to have a good heart, which is also known as bodhichitta. Bodhichitta is love, kindness, compassion, and wisdom. These qualities are the basic nature of every living being. Practicing bodhichitta begins with the positive aspiration to help all beings. When we have this foundation, all the activities of our body, speech, and mind become healthy and serene.”
Ven. Khenpo Rinpoches
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