Significance of Number ༡༥ to Samtse དེ་བ་ཅན་ཚོགས་པ། and Samtse Dzongkhag

 

The number 15 holds deep significance for the followers of དེ་བ་ཅན་ཚོགས་པ།, owing to several significant occurrences. As per online sources, humanity has abided by the lunar cycle for ages, aligning our energies with the Earth and the cosmos. When the moon reaches its full illumination on the 15th day of each lunar month, it symbolizes a spiritual zenith, prompting individuals to awaken from the cycle of samsara.

During these full moon days, pivotal figures such as Buddha and Bodhisattva have been born or attained enlightenment. Notable examples include Lord Buddha, Terton Pema Lingpa, Lord Manjushri, Khenchen Jigme Phuntsho, the present Gyelsey Tenzin Rabgay, and many others. The 15th day of every lunar month is also revered as a sacred occasion for Buddha Amitabha, offering an auspicious opportunity to offer prayers and pay homage, aspiring for rebirth in the realm of དེ་བ་ཅན་ཞིང་ཁམས།.

 It is recounted that Lord Manjushri, embraced by དེ་བ་ཅན་ཚོགས་པ།, came into existence on the 15th day of a lunar month. Khenchen Jigme Phuntsho Jungney, who unveiled the teachings of Manjushri known as འཇམ་དཔལ་ཛོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ, transcended to nirvana on this same lunar date. In 2015, Tang Rinpoche, fulfilling his root guru's prophecy, graced Samtse Dzongkhag with his presence. The inhabitants of དེ་བ་ཅན་ཚོགས་པ in Samtse traditionally conducted དེ་བ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ། every 15th day of the lunar month prior to the pandemic. Intriguingly, Samtse Dzongkhag comprises 15 gewogs.

As for myself, born on the 15th day of a lunar month and named བཅོ་ལྔ་ རྡོེ ༼༡༥༽, my sole trajectory aligned with དེ་བ་ཅན་ཚོགས་པ། involves treading the path illuminated by the gurus, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas.