Drukpa Tshe-zi is one of most auspicious and significant occasion for Buddhists all over the world

Drukpa Tshe-zi is one of most auspicious and significant occasion for Buddhists all over the world. This auspicious day falls on the 4th day (Tshe-zi) of the 6th month (Drukpa) of the Tibetan lunar calendar. It marks the day on which Lord Buddha gave his first sermon on the Four Noble Truths to his first five disciples in the Deer Park at Sarnath, more than 2500 years ago, after attaining enlightenment.

When the Buddha set out to give teachings for the first time, a thousand thrones appeared before him. He made circumambulation of the first three thrones, which belonged to the three past Buddhas. He sat upon the fourth, in a cross-legged posture. Hundreds of thousands of devotees gathered from all the three realms. Among them were his five disciples, the gods Indra and Brahma, the Bodhisattvas of all ten directions and the protectors of all directions. Brahma formally requested Buddha to begin his teachings by offering him a golden wheel with a thousand spokes, which represented the opening of the hundred doors of the dharma by the thousand Buddhas. Indra offered a white conch shell with its opening turned to the right to symbolize the flourishing of Dharma and sounding its fame out in all ten directions, thus awakening the world from the slumbering darkness of ignorance. Both of these eminent gods again and again requested Buddha to turn the wheel of Dharma, and they prayed “May all sentient beings be freed from the root of suffering by turning the wheel of doctrine. By merely hearing the sound of Dharma, the suffering of life can be ended. Therefore, may you live a long life, giving teachings many times over for the sake of all sentient beings.”

At that moment, a pair of golden deer appeared from the forest and gazed reverently at the golden wheel. The deer represent the union of the dual eyes of compassion and wisdom. Since then it has become customary to place a wheel held by deer on each side of the entrance to a temple, symbolizing the teachings of the Buddha and the wisdom the teachings bestow.

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