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Buddha Purnima

Gautama Buddha

Buddha's Birthday is a holiday traditionally celebrated in most of East Asia to commemorate the birth of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Gautama Buddha and founder of Buddhism. 

It is also celebrated in South and Southeast Asia as Vesak which also acknowledges the enlightenment and death of the Buddha. 

According to the Theravada Tripitakascriptures (from Pali, meaning "three baskets"), Gautama was born in Lumbini in modern-day Nepal, in the year 623 B.C., according to the Nepalese Account, and raised in Kapilavastu. 

At the age of thirty five, he attained enlightenment (nirvana) underneath a Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya(modern day India). 

At the age of eighty, He died at Kushinagar, India.

Vesak (Pali: Vesākha, Sanskrit: Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists and some Hindus on different days. 

The festival commemorates the birth, enlightenment (Buddhahood), and death (Parinirvāna) of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition.

DATE OF BUDDHA PURNIMA

This year Buddha Purnima is celebrated in 30 April.

The exact date of Buddha's Birthday is based on the Asian lunisolar calendars.

The date for the celebration of Buddha's Birthday varies from year to year in the Western Gregorian calendar, but usually falls in April or May. 

In leap years it may be celebrated in June.

BUDDHA QUOTES

• The mind is everything. What you think you become.

• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

• You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

 

• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

• To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

• There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

• It is better to travel well than to arrive.

• Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

• Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

• Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.