Lhabab Duchen - Buddha Shakyamunia’s Descent From Tushita Heaven Lhabab Duchen celebrates the anniversary of Buddha Shakyamuni’s descent from heaven after repaying the kindness of his mother by liberating her from Samsara and teaching Dharma to the gods. It is another auspicious occasion and one of four major Buddhist festivals. Lhabab Duchen occurs on the […]
བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་གསར། Tashi Delek Losar 2150 Tibetan New Year 2023 from Geshe Phelgye’s Buddhist Institute of Universal Compassion TIBETAN NEW YEAR 2023 LOSAR - Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་གསར།, Wylie: lo-gsar is a NEW YEAR festival celebrated in Tibet and similarly by Tibetan Buddhists worldwide. Tibetan Losar 2023 (New Year) festival falls on Tuesday, February 21, 2023. While the Gregorian calendar is purely […]
CHOTRUL MONLAM CHENMO Great Prayer Festival of Miracles –Tibetan Butter Lantern Festival– February 21st-March 07th, 2023 MONLAM CHENMO– The Great Prayer Festival is the anniversary commemorating those 15 days of Buddha Shakya Muni performing various miracles in response to the continued call for computation of power by the six jealous ascetic masters. Buddha performed astonishing […]
MARCH 10th TIBETAN Uprising Day TIBETAN UPRISING DAY, observed yearly on MARCH 10th, commemorates the 1959 Tibetan peaceful uprising against Communist China’s repression in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The failure of the armed rebellion ultimately resulted in a violent crackdown on Tibetan independence movements, forcing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to flee into exile in […]
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