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Lhabab Dhuechen
Festival
 God
:
Lord Buddha
Symbolises
:
Descent of Lord Buddha from the heaven
Religion
:
Buddhism
Lhabab Dhuechen : This festival symbolises the Descent of Buddha from the heaven of the thirty three gods after visiting his mother.
Dhuechen means festivals, Lha means heaven and Bab means descent.
According to legend, Queen Maha Maya, the mother of Lord Buddha, did not live long, took rebirth in
Trayastrimsa or the heaven of the thirty Gods. After attaining Enlightenment, Lord Buddha through spiritual powers came to know about the whereabouts of his mother and at the age of forty one ascended to heavens
alongwith thousands of his followers.
Lord Buddha stayed in heaven for three months during which he devered sermons to his mother and other celestial beings. Lord Buddha had left behind on earth one of his disciples,
Maugalyayana, as his representative.
This disciple and other devotees of the Lord could not bear the long separation and longed to hear his
preachins. Maugalyayana, who possessed miraculous powers, was exhorted to go up to the heaven to request the Lord to return back to the earth.
The gods were not willing to let Lord Buddha return to earth but Maugalyanana suggested that as the earthly beings did not have the powers to visit heaven, the
celelstial beings could come to the earth to attend his preachings.
Lord Buddha finally relented and descended to the earth at a place called sankasya along a triple ladder that was prepared especially for the occasion by
Viswakarma, the God of Machines.
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