Lhabab Duchen

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Lha Bab Düchen (Tibetan: ལྷ་བབས་དུས་ཆེན་, Wylie: lha babs (divine descent) dus chen (great time)) is one of the four major Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of Gautama Buddha. Lha Bab Düchen occurs on the 22nd day of the 9th Tibetan lunar month and celebrates Buddha's return to the human realm after teaching his mother for three months in the God's realm. It is widely celebrated in Buddhist Asian countries including Tibet, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, where the celebration corresponds to local calendars. Lha Bab Duchen is an annual Buddhist festival celebrated to observe the Buddha's return from the God's realm, known as Indra's realm of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. Also called Trāyastriṃśa heaven, he went there to repay his mother Mayadevi's kindnesses by preaching to her and to the gods. Mayadevi attained arhatship. According to events in the Buddha's life, the Buddha had ascended the Gods realm at the age of 45 in order to give teachings to...

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