WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2018

4:00 pm Shangpa Mönlam (aspiration prayers & offerings)
5:30 pm* Tea break
6:00 pm* Tsok offering and Dedication of Merit
(Bring offerings of food, incense, tea, candles, flowers, etc.)
Lha Bab Düchen is one of the four major Buddhist holidays, and it commemorates the day Buddha returned from Tushita Heaven (The Heaven of the 33) where he liberated his mother (who had died a few days after his birth) from Samsara and gave teaching to the Gods of the Desire Realm. On this day, results of positive or negative actions are said to be multiplied 100 million times, so we do several special practices to increase the merit of all beings.

*Times are approximate.