Transform your life with the Wesak Moon The Wesak Moon is a cosmic opportunity for transformation. Use this date to reflect, meditate, forgive, and reconnect with your essence.

Wesak celebrates the Buddha's birthday and, for some Buddhists, also marks his enlightenment and death. It is also called Buddha Day. Wesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and is ...

Wesak This most important Buddhist festival is known as either Vesak, Wesak or Buddha Day, and is celebrated annually on the full moon of the ancient lunar month of Vesakha, which usually falls in ...

So during Wesak/Parinirvana Day (whichever is appropriate) - and for the rest of the year as well - we can all learn from the Buddha's teachings to make the world a better, kinder place. 7.

AIA Insurance concluded the AIA Piyavara Pooja, Sri Lanka’s first crowd sourced digital ‘thorana’, held in celebration of Vesak, at the Colombo 07 Buddha Rashmi Vesak Kalapaya. Held for two days from ...

"Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B ...

This was the lighting that decorated the village. The homes were lit with vesak koodu, buckets or oil lamps. No electric bulbs were seen. We had to go to the Kandy city to see the only thorana (pandal ...

The story illustrated is the ‘Pancha Uda Jathakaya.’ The labour costs and cost of around 50,000 bulbs needed to light the thorana are prohibitive, he says. Their thoran making doesn’t stop after Vesak ...