Buddha Purnima is a major Buddhist festival that commemorates the birth of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who later became Gautam Buddha and founded Buddhism. In India, Buddha Purnima is celebrated on the full moon day of Vaisakha month in the Hindu calendar. This year, Buddha Purnima falls on May 23, 2024. However, countries like China, Japan, Bhutan, and Thailand go by their own lunar-solar calendars, so their date of Buddha Purnima varies.
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In India, Buddha Purnima is celebrated by making visits to Buddhist viharas and attending special prayers. Devotees also prepare kheer, to recall the lore of Sujata, a farmer’s wife who had fed Gautama Buddha a bowl of kheer and ended his six years of asceticism. Buddha Purnima is majorly celebrated in Maharashtra, Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar’s Bodh Gaya, Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh, parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong.
10 Quotes Of Lord Buddha
- “Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.”
- “Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law.”
- “Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.”
- “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
- “Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.”
- “Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.”
- “One should train in three deeds of merit—generosity, a balanced life, and developing a loving mind—that yields long-lasting happiness.”
- “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
- “Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds.”
- “Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so, the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
