12 May 2025 (Monday)
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
2025 Dzogchen Buddha Path
Vesak Day Celebration Event
Monday, May 12th 2025 at 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm (Taiwan UTC+8)
Sunday Evening, May 11th 2025 at 9:00 pm to 12:00 am (Pacific UTC-8)
The full moon in May is recognized by the United Nations and celebrated around the world by millions of Buddhists as Vesak Day. On this very holy day, we honor the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of our Supreme Guide Buddha Shakyamuni.
In the Dzogchen Buddha Path Lineage, we officially celebrate these holy events on the 7th day of the 4th lunar month during Saga Dawa in accordance with the historical dates found in the Sutras and Tantras. However, our Sangha also commemorates the globally recognized Vesak day in order to join and support the virtuous activities of Buddhist Lineages worldwide.
This year’s program will include special teachings and ceremonies led by our Holy Vajra Master along with Dzogchen Buddha Path authorized Bodhi Lamas and Dharma Teachers. The full program will last for 3 hours.
Event Times
The Dzogchen Buddha Path Vesak Day Celebration Event will be on Monday, May 12th, 2025 at:
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm Taiwan time
11:00 am to 2:00 pm Hanoi time
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Tokyo time
6:00 am to 9:00 am Vienna time
7:00 am to 10:00 am Moscow time
9:00 pm to 12:00 am Pacific time (Sunday, May 11th).
Event Registration and Pricing
All Buddhists and virtuous beings are welcome and encouraged to attend this auspicious event. There is no charge to attend this event.
Sarwa Mangalam!
About the 2025 Dzogchen Buddha Path Vesak Day Celebration Event
Vesak Day, also known as Buddha Jayanti, is one of the most important and widely celebrated holidays in the Buddhist calendar. It commemorates Buddha Shakyamuni’s birth, enlightenment, and transformation into Deathless Rainbow Body, the Supreme Lord, Padmasambhava. The day is observed on the full moon day of the Vaisakha month in the Buddhist lunar calendar, which typically falls in April or May, because this was the date that Buddha Shakyamuni was born, the date he attained awakened omniscience, as well as the date that he transformed into Padmasambhava. This year Vesak Day will occur on May 12th.
The significance of Vesak Day can be summarized in the following key events in the life of Buddha:
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Birth: Buddha Shakyamuni was born as Prince Siddhartha in Lumbini (modern-day Nepal) in 960 BCE.
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Enlightenment: Buddha Shakyamuni attained awakened omniscience at the age of 35 in Bodhgaya through meditating Dzogchen.
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Transformation into Deathless Rainbow Body, the Supreme Lord, Padmasambhava: Through the power of Buddha Shakyamuni’s unconditional love, at the age of 82 in Kushinagar, India, Buddha Shakyamuni transformed into Deathless Rainbow Body, the Supreme Lord, Padmasambhava.
On Vesak Day, we gather as a Buddhist sangha to celebrate and commemorate these auspicious events in Buddha Shakyamuni’s life. So please join us this year along with our Holy Vajra Master along with the Dzogchen Buddha Path authorized Bodhi Lamas and Dharma Teachers to celebrate this very auspicious event!
About the Teacher
The 2025 Dzogchen Buddha Path Vesak Day Celebration Event will be directed by H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. A vibrant and dynamic teacher, Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche is a 33rd-generation lineage holder of the Buddhist wisdom lineage of Dzogchen, a Lama of Dzogchen Monastery, and professor of the Dzogchen Shri Singha University. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche has more than seven years of solitary cave meditation experience in the high Tibetan holy mountains and embodies the qualities of a realized practitioner and yogi. He is a published author of numerous Tibetan and English books, including The Buddha Path, a practice book that encompasses all of Buddha’s teachings, and which is now available in English, Chinese, Russian, and German. It is soon to be released in Nepali, Japanese, and Spanish.
More about Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche
The Great Merit of Supporting Retreats
Even if you will not be able to attend this event, you or anyone else you know may earn tremendous merit by supporting those in attendance. Even for an online event of this kind, there is much left to do to ensure success and to pave the way for future events of its kind to reach Sangha all over the world.
There are four ways you can help:
1. Offer your time and talent. Volunteer for the 2025 Dzogchen Buddha Path Vesak Day Celebration Event and get the unique benefits of joining in the activities of the Holy Vajra Master, Compassionate Heroine Buddha Tara, and all Buddhas. Contact your local event director for information.
2. Offer donations. There is much technical infrastructure and actual building materials and supplies needed to produce this event and to provide the infrastructure for future events.
3. Make offerings. You do not have to attend the event to offer. You can make offerings for yourself or on behalf of others.
4. Attend this virtual worldwide event. Showing up online helps to increase our accumulation power!
If you would like more information, please contact the International Event Director or your regional event director.
Bodhi Lama Li Heng, International Event Director
2025 Dzogchen Buddha Path Vesak Day Celebration Event
