Lhabab Duchen
10:00am – 11:00am PST (Pacific Standard Time)
in person
Program Category: Buddhist Prayers and Practices
Lhabab Duchen, one of the four great holy days of the
Buddhist calendar, takes place this year on November 22,
2024.
Lhabab Duchen celebrates Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’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
The Treasure of Quotations and Logic.
Join us in-person at OCBC as we watch the recording of Lama
Zopa Rinpoche giving the oral transmission of the
Sutra of Great Liberation
in 2021. We will read the sutra silently
during this time.
Other practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for Merit
Multiplying Days include:
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Taking the eight Mahayana precepts: students can receive the lineage of these precepts from a specially produced video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche granting them, which was edited from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings on Thought Transformation video series, recorded in May 2020 at Kopan Monastery.
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Reciting the Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels
Everybody is welcome to attend!
This is a free event. Donations are appreciated.
Support
Make skies of merit on this special day by practicing
generosity. Our Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche,
citing the Vinaya text The Treasure of Quotations and
Logic, tells us that the benefit from generous actions
are multiplied one hundred million times on Merit
Multiplying Days.
Read more of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice about Merit Multiplying days.
