Wheel Day

Event Details This event finished on 19 November 2019 Venue: Rigpa UK Categories: Practice, Sangha Lha Bab Düchen Lha Bab Düchen or the ‘Festival of the Descent from Heaven’ is one of the four major Buddhist holidays. It occurs on the 22nd day of the ninth Tibetan month. Buddha’s mother Mayadevi was reborn in Indra’s heaven. To repay her kindness and to … Continue reading “Wheel Day”


Event Details

This event finished on 19 November 2019


Lha Bab Düchen

Lha Bab Düchen or the ‘Festival of the Descent from Heaven’ is one of the four major Buddhist holidays. It occurs on the 22nd day of the ninth Tibetan month. Buddha’s mother Mayadevi was reborn in Indra’s heaven. To repay her kindness and to liberate her, and also to benefit the gods, Buddha spent three months teachings in the realm of the gods.

When he was about to return to this world, Indra and Brahma manifested three stairs of 80,000 yojanaseach reaching this world in Sankisa. As the Buddha walked down the central one, they accompanied him to his left and right carrying umbrellas to honour him. He descended to earth in Sankisa, which is located in modern Uttar Pradesh, and which is counted among the eight holy places.

 

On this day, the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied ten million times.

London Practice schedule – open to all Rigpa Mandala students

3pm: Intro, three Crucial Points, sitting
3:15pm: Mipham Rinpoche’s Buddha Sadhana
3:35pm: Bodhisattva Vow
4:10pm: Verses of Homage to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
4:45pm: Zangcho Monlam

5pm break and tsok preparation

6-8pm TN tsok including Heart Sutra, Narak Kong Shak and chanting some of the practices in English