Today is Choekhor Duchen in the Tibetan #Buddhist calendar.

As the story goes, for weeks on end after his complete awakening and vanquishing of suffering the Buddha just stayed in the forest and enjoyed his realization. But the gods kept pestering him to teach the Dharma so others in this problematic realm might end their suffering as well.

Finally he was like “Oh, all right. Sigh. Since you asked.”

And that’s what we celebrate. #ChoekhorDuchen#TashiDelek