Warm greetings from Tushita &
wishing you all an auspicious Lhabab Düchen!
On Lhabab Düchen we celebrate Shakyamuni Buddha’s descent from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three, after giving Dharma teachings for several months to the gods and his mother, Mayadevi.
This day is one of the four great holy days of the Tibetan calendar and is considered to be very auspicious for practice. Karmic results of actions are multiplied one hundred million times, as quoted by Lama Zopa Rinpoche from the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.
To celebrate this meritorious occasion we will have a special program in person at Tushita and live on zoom – you’re most welcome to join us!
We are extremely honoured and delighted that Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche accepted our request to give teachings at Tushita on Lhabab Düchen!
This teaching is open to everyone and registration is not required.
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We will have the following program at Tushita:
Schedule
6.00am: Light Offering Ceremony (Hybrid)
A unique opportunity to sponsor your own butter lamp offering with your special dedication offered on this meritorious day!
9.00am – 10.00am: Guided Morning Meditation (Hybrid)
10.00am – 11.00am: Reading of Golden Light Sutra for peace in the world (Only in Person)
2.00pm: Dharma Movie (Only in Person)
3.00 – 4.30pm: Teaching by Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche:
How did Buddha Repay the Kindness of His Mothers? (Hybrid)
7.00pm: Medicine Buddha Puja (Hybrid)
Drop in for any session! No registration needed and by donation.
Please feel very welcome to join us in person at Tushita or online on this special day!
On this auspicious day we also present you & your loved ones with the unique opportunity to offer a butter lamp with your special dedication in this holy place!
Offering lights to holy objects is a very powerful method to illuminate the wisdom in our minds and to create causes for us to attain realizations. In Tushita, butter lamps can be offered on your behalf on wheel turning days with your special dedication. This offering is done in front of the altars in our Main Gompa in this holy place, Dharamsala (home in exile of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama).
If you'd like to make any donation for Lhabab Düchen
Please click the button to email the Director for your sponsorship
Also, your ongoing support for our projects & items on our Amazon Wish list is much appreciated!
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Help needed with this urgent project during our upcoming winter break:
Renovation of Main Gompa Floor Part II
Due to very long and heavy monsoon seasons up here in the foothills of the Himalayas, it’s very difficult to prevent the wooden floor of our Main Gompa from getting mouldy and rotting at some point.
In 2020, a part of our gompa wooden floor was in very bad shape and unsafe and needed immediate renovation. Thanks to the help of our kind sponsors, we were able to replaced it with a beautiful new wooden floor!
Since last year, the other side of the gompa floor started to break as well. To the degree that walking of our precious teachers and students becomes dangerous at times!
The estimated cost of replacing this second part of the wooden gompa floor will be approximately 15000 US Dollars.
Thank you so much for any contribution you can make for this urgent project!
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How to offer:
If you'd like to sponsor any of the above
Please click the button to email the Director for your sponsorship
Please indicate the purpose of your offering:
how many lamps you’d like to offer, and which size, or how much you would like to offer towards the replacement of our gompa floor or for any other project!
We’re always happy to offer these with any special dedications you’d like to make.
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