Chökhor Düchen (Tib. ཆོས་འཁོར་དུས་ཆེན་), the ‘Festival of Turning the Wheel of Dharma’ is one of the four major Buddhist holidays. It occurs on the fourth day of the sixth Tibetan lunar month. For seven weeks after his enlightenment, Buddha did not teach. Finally, encouraged by Indra and Brahma, in Sarnath, he turned the Wheel of Dharma […]
Lha Bab Düchen
Lha Bab Düchen (Tib. ལྷ་བབས་དུས་ཆེན་) 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 teaching in the realm […]