The truth to be told, Indians generally celebrates 13 festivals in twelve months by the people and divisions. Most of you do celebrate the festivals without knowing the nitty gritty about the festivals, one such festival as Buddha Purnima is celebrated by the people not only by the Buddhist, even Hindus also used to celebrate this festival. Let’s take a look at the reasons and stories behind to celebrate the function of Buddha Purnima festival by the following facts.
Interesting facts to know about Buddha Purnima
Buddha Poornima is a festival celebrated by Hindus and Buddhist people all over the world to commemorate the birth of Gautam Buddha. The festival of Buddha Poornima will be celebrated in India, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
The festival is also named as Vesak, is celebrated with religious fervor by Buddhist, the day has another specialty to remain it is the day when Gautam Buddha attained salvation under Mahabodhi tree at Bodh Gaya.
The day of Nirvana (salvation) for Gautam Buddha falls on the full moon night in the month of Vaisakh, there is no fixed date to commemorate the salvation of Buddha. The date gets varies for every year according to the calendar, but by assumingly the day usually falls on either month of April or May.
In the current year, Vesak falls on 30th April 2019. Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal and he attains Salvation in Kushinagar, India. Siddhartha Gautama has later become Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
The auspicious day is celebrated by following their religious core values to remember the teachings of Gautama Buddha on Compassion and non-violence. Devotees of Buddha temple will gather in a place to give quiet respect to their saint through buddha Purnima images.
During the festival of Vesak or Buddha Purnima, the wheel symbol will be seen commonly around to represent the teaching of Gautama Buddha regarding the eight ribs on dharma as dharma chakra.
Forest Life enlightens Gautama Buddha
The day commemorates the birth and death to enlighten the core rules of Buddhism preached by Gautama Buddha. He born as a Prince Siddharta Gautama, an incidence makes Buddha know the fate of every man, discomforts on material which can help to avoid miseries in life.
At the instant prince, Siddharta decides to leave all his comforts and begin to go forward strive for moksha. Buddha makes move towards the forest to lead a life of an ascetic with the fulfillment of peace and avoiding miseries. The life of forest enlightens Siddharta Gautama to earn the name of Gautama Buddha. Buddha realizes the sought and he found out the answers of life and earned high knowledge about life.
The significance of Buddha Purnima
Lanterns play an important role in the festival of Buddha Poornima, most often people use electric lanterns to celebrate the festival. The shapes in lanterns will get differ as by the traditions followed by the people on the regions with Buddha Purnima photos. South Koreas people use lotus pattern with whilst; Srilanka people use electric colorful patterns on the celebration.
The pattern patterns used in the festival to signifies the happiness and enlightenment towards others by sharing the Buddha Purnima wishes. The pattern describes the truth and teaching of life as happiness comes from the mind of the person.
Buddha Purnima Images: Celebrations
Buddhist followers in India will decorate the idol of Buddha and offer sweets, fruits, and candles to worship their saint. Sarnath is the famous place in India to celebrate Buddha Poornima with a huge procession and a fair is organized to donning white clothes, shares Buddha Purnima images chanting Buddhist scriptures and holding prayers for their saint Buddhist. They also donate food for the poor people who can’t afford to earn and eat.
Nepal people celebrate the function by wearing white clothes having vegetarian food with the special dish of kheer, sweet rice porridge to recalls the perceived of a holy man about buddha Purnima greeting. Nepal people used to throw the Milk porridge bowl into the river after they having the food and they follow the asceticism to attain enlightenment in Buddhism.
Japan people consider this day as the most important festival so the government offers them to leave on this day to celebrate the festival. They get together in the commonplace and people make replicas of shrines with spring flowers around the place and also in the place of idol Buddha placed. Idol of Buddha decorated with full of flowers and temples hold special events on the day to remember their saint/lord.
South Korea
Buddha Poornima will be celebrated in South Korea as the most famous religious festival. Based on the Korean lunar calendar, Korean people celebrate the function on the eight days of the fourth month. The festival Buddha Poornima is named in South Korea as Seokga tansinil, it means the birthday of Buddha. The festival has grown in Korea as a fully-fledged festival, so their government announces an official holiday for their people to celebrate.
Korean peoples will celebrate the festival throughout the holy month, they used to visit temples and worship their lord by chanting Buddha Purnima quotes. The temple of Buddha will decorate fully with the lotus lanterns and even though free meals of beverages will be offered in temples on an auspicious day. The priests and followers of Buddha will chant the mantras and used to read teachings of Buddha on this day.
