Vesak Sri Lanka 09/05/2009

Vesak is an annual holiday observed traditionally by practicing Buddhists in South Asian & South East Asian countries like Nepal, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Pakistan and India. [1] Sometimes informally called "Buddha's birthday," it actually encompasses the birth, enlightenment Nirvana, and passing (Parinirvana) of Gautama Buddha.

In Mahayana Buddhist traditions, the holiday is known by its Sanskrit name, वैशाख Vaiśākha, and derived variants of it. The word Vesak itself is the Sinhalese language word (වෙසක්) for the Pali variation, Vesākha. Vesak is also known as बुद्ध पुर्णिमा/বুদ্ধ পূর্ণিমা Buddha Purnima or बुद्ध जयंती/বুদ্ধ জয়ন্তী Buddha Jayanti in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, 花祭 (Hanamatsuri) in Japan, 석카 탄신일 Seokka Tanshin-il in Korean, 佛誕 (Mandarin: Fódàn, Cantonese: Fātdàahn) in Chinese-speaking communities, Phật Đản in Vietnamese, ས་ག་ཟླབ Saga Dawa (sa ga zla ba) in Tibetan, វិសាខ​បូជា Visak Bochéa in Khmer, วันวิสาขบูชา Visakah Puja (or Visakha Bucha) in Thai, Waisak in Indonesia, වෙසක් පසළොස්වක පෝය Vesak (Wesak) in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. The equivalent festival in Laos is called ວິຊຂບູຊ Vixakha Bouxa and in Myanmar is called Ka-sone-la-pyae meaning Fullmoon Day of Kasone which is also the second month of the Myanmar Calendar.

The exact date of Vesak varies according to the various lunar calendars used in different traditions. In Theravada countries following the Buddhist calendar, it falls on the full moon Uposatha day (typically the 5th or 6th lunar month). While the Vesak Day in China, it is on the eighth of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. The date varies from year to year in the Western Gregorian calendar but falls in April or May.

The 2009 date for Vesak as observed by the Dhammayutika and Mahānikāya sects of Thai Buddhism was 8 May[2]; 8 May 2009 was also Vesak in Sri Lanka[3]. The 2009 date for Vesak as observed in Singapore is 9 May.[4]

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[charithpeter85]

Sri Lanka is the one of the few countries around the world which can be seen this amazing friendship and combination between two races, nationalities, religions... etc. It's really unbelievable as these countries (where I live at the moment) doesn't know who is his neighbor is.

I always say this...

"I'm proud to be a Sri Lankan..."

[sachith47]

wow so beutiful

[cameronlatte]

in Malaysia our way of celebrate this holy day is a bit different he he sorry because we Malaysian like to be peace and we are the peaceful champion because we have Chinese,Singhalese,Indian,Tibe­tan,Nepalese,Burmese,Thai in our country. we are multi cultural and multi religion country with the very peace and hormany society.

thanks

Malaysian

[cameronlatte]

you all must come to experien the wesak day in Malaysia, every year we sure will have a procession at least 12km, and you can have a chance to snap a photo on the very beautiful decorated float.

[magebaba]

Buddha is the greatest. thanx for this.

[nitro2u2]

Thanks for this video!