Today, we celebrate Shakyamuni Buddha's descent from heaven. Buddha's mother, Mayadevi, was reborn in Indra's heaven. To repay her kindness, to liberate her, and also to benefit the gods, Buddha spent three months teaching in the heaven realm. When it came time for him to return to this world, Indra and Brahma manifested a triple staircase of 80,000 steps, and Buddha returned to this world on the twenty-second day of the ninth Tibetan month.
Today, the effects of positive, as well as negative, actions and thoughts are multiplied ten million times.
I have read about the celebration. And its something exactly as history ilustrates in the snapshots that i find on my searches. A very nice tradition that will maintain the root of budhhism a lot of time.
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