It is a day to celebrate the birth of Gautama Buddha- founder of Buddhism. Gautama was born in Lumbini in Nepal in year 563 BCE on the full moon day in the Hindu month of Vaisakh. This year we commemorate his 2580th birth anniversary. Buddha Jayanti is celebrated with traditional religious enthusiasm.
Birthday date of Buddha is based on the Asian lunisolar calendars and is celebrated in Baisakh month of the Buddhist calendar and Bikram Sambat Hindu calendar and hence it is also called Vesak.
Gautama learned of suffering of ordinary people, encountering an old man, a sick man, a corpse and an ascetic holy man, apparently content and at peace with the world. These experiences forced Gautama to abandon royal life and take up a spiritual quest.
Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanthi is celebrated especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, North Bengal, Maharashtra, Himachal and Uttar Pradesh.
Siddharth Gautamma got enlightenment and nirvana on the same day ie Full Moon day. Therefore Buddha Purnima also marks parinirvana of Gautama Buddha. He achieved enlightenment in Bodhgaya under a bodhi tree.
Sarnath is foremost place in Buddhism as Gautam Buddha delivers his first sermon here hence on this holy day a large fair is held at Sarnath and relics of the Buddha are taken out for public display in a procession. On this day Buddhists offer prayers in various monasteries & Gompa at Sarnath and this celebration attracts huge crowd. Some religious activities likes as Prayers, sermons and recitation of Buddhist scriptures are performed by monks. Buddhists and devotees meditate and worship the statue of Lord Buddha.
Birthday date of Buddha is based on the Asian lunisolar calendars and is celebrated in Baisakh month of the Buddhist calendar and Bikram Sambat Hindu calendar and hence it is also called Vesak.
Gautama learned of suffering of ordinary people, encountering an old man, a sick man, a corpse and an ascetic holy man, apparently content and at peace with the world. These experiences forced Gautama to abandon royal life and take up a spiritual quest.
Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanthi is celebrated especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, North Bengal, Maharashtra, Himachal and Uttar Pradesh.
Siddharth Gautamma got enlightenment and nirvana on the same day ie Full Moon day. Therefore Buddha Purnima also marks parinirvana of Gautama Buddha. He achieved enlightenment in Bodhgaya under a bodhi tree.
Sarnath is foremost place in Buddhism as Gautam Buddha delivers his first sermon here hence on this holy day a large fair is held at Sarnath and relics of the Buddha are taken out for public display in a procession. On this day Buddhists offer prayers in various monasteries & Gompa at Sarnath and this celebration attracts huge crowd. Some religious activities likes as Prayers, sermons and recitation of Buddhist scriptures are performed by monks. Buddhists and devotees meditate and worship the statue of Lord Buddha.
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