Celebrate Lhabab Düchen

When: Friday, November 22, 2024, 7:00 – 7:45 pm ET

Lhabab Düchen is one of the four Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Lhabab Düchen occurs on the 22nd day of the ninth lunar month according to Tibetan calendar and is widely celebrated in Tibet and Bhutan. Lhabab Duchen celebrates the Buddha’s return to earth after teaching the Dharma to his mother in the God Realm of the Thirty-Three.

We will recite The Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels and The King of Prayers as a group online.

Merit created on this day is multiplied 100 million times so it is a wonderful opportunity for us to practice online together.

Please register to attend on Zoom.

Practices You Can Do On Your Own

Specific advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for practices to do on merit multiplying days can be found on FPMT.org, including advice to take The Eight Mahayana Precepts and recite The Vajra Cutter Sutra. If you choose to recite the Sutra of Golden Light on this special day, you might like to report your recitations using the facility on FPMT.org, which you can find on the Sutra of Golden Light reporting page.

On merit-multiplying days, the FPMT Puja Fund sponsors a large number of pujas and practices offered by thousands of sangha on behalf of the entire FPMT. These prayers are dedicated to all FPMT centers, projects, and services; all students, volunteers, and those who offer service in FPMT; and to all beings in general.

Supporting the Dharma is an incredibly powerful and necessary action… and especially meritorious on Holy Days like Lhabab Düchen.

There are opportunities to sponsor our Lama Yeshe Ling Sangha, as well as the FPMT’s Ordained Sangha Fund, The Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund. and the FPMT’s International Mahayana Institute among others.

This is the highest form of generosity, sharing with others the path to full awakening. Offerings to the Dharma create the causes to never be separated and to have conditions to realize the teachings. It deepens your connection with Dharma teachers, and you become connected with our community.