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Join us in prayer and circumambulation on this holy day!
Lhabab Düchen is one of the four major Buddha holy days of the year. On this day, we celebrate the Buddha’s return to beings in our realm after a three-month separation.
During that separation, he had gone to the God Realm of Thirty-Three, a higher realm where his mother was reborn after giving him birth, in order to repay her kindness by giving teachings to liberate her from samsara. His teachings in the God Realm of the Thirty-Three also benefited the Arya Beings who lived there.
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As a Buddha holy day, this is an auspicious day for practice, when the karmic effects of actions are multiplied one hundred million times, according to our Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, citing the Vinaya text The Treasure of Quotations and Logic. Lhabab Düchen occurs on the 22nd day of the ninth month on the Tibetan lunar calendar.
Geshe Gelek encourages students to take the Eight Mahayana Precepts on holy days. Students who have taken these precepts before from a qualified master may take them at home before their own altar. Students may take the precepts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche via this video, which was produced especially to provide this opportunity to those who have not received them.
For more about the practice of precepts, please read The Direct and Unmistaken Method by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Rinpoche advises many other practices on holy days as well.
Events at Kadampa Center:
- At 10 am Venerable Lhamo will lead us in prayers selected by Geshe Gelek In person and online via Zoom and YouTube. Register here for Zoom.
- The gompa will open at 9 am, and remain open after the prayers until noon, for students who wish to do personal practice, or circumambulate the stupa and/or the gompa outside.
Create merit by sponsoring a Holy Day event!
Sponsoring spiritual events is beneficial on many levels. It benefits the Center by providing the resources to offer the event; it benefits the students who attend the event, and it benefits the donor by deepening the practice of generosity and creating the causes to meet the Dharma again in the future.
Sponsorship of general Holy Day events and activities is $108.
Supporting the Holy Day event is a two-step process
Step One is dedicating your generosity (click here).
Step Two is making the donation or sponsorship (use the link below)
Dedications may be very simple - "For my mother, Rosemary" - or they might encompass more extensive spiritual wishes, such as "May these teachings be the cause to liberate all sentient beings," or wishes for the teacher's long life, to benefit a person who is ill - any heart-felt positive intention! You also can dedicate for more than one intention.
Sponsor Holy Day Activities $108
