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This article deals with the East Asian holiday. See also Vesak.
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Lotus Lantern Festival celebrating Buddha's Birthday, in South Korea
Buddha's Birthday (Traditional Chinese: 佛誕; Pinyin: fó dàn; Cantonese: fātdáahn), the birthday of the Gautama Buddha traditionally celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, is an official holiday in Hong Kong, Macau, and South Korea. The date varies from year to year in the Western (Gregorian) calendar:

Nepal

The birth place of the Buddha is Lumbini in Nepal).

Sri Lanka

This is one of the major festivals in Sri Lanka. It is celebrated on the full moon day of the month. People engage in religious observances and decorate houses and streets with lights and specially made lanterns.

Japan

In Japan, Buddha's Birthday is celebrated on April 8, but is not a national holiday. It is also known as 'Flower Festival' since 1902(Japanese: Hana-matsuri or Kanbutsu-e). Japanese people traditionally drink ama-cha, a beverage prepared from a variety of hydrangea.

Korea

In Korea the birthday of Buddha is celebrated according to the Lunisolar calendar. This day is called 부처님 오신 날 (Bucheonim osin nal), meaning "the day when Buddha arrived" or Seokka Tanshin-il meaning "the day of Buddha's Birthday". Lotus lanterns cover the entire temple throughout the month which are often flooded down the street. On the day of Buddha's birth, many temples provide free meals and tea to all visitors. The breakfast and lunch provided are often sanchae bibimbap.

Other countries

Some places have a public holiday one week later, on the fifteenth day of the fourth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar, to coincide with the full moon. For instance, Visakha Puja in Thailand or Lễ Phật đản in Vietnam was such a holiday on May 12 in 2006. Singapore also celebrates Vesak Day on the fifteenth day of the fourth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. (For future dates, add 7 days to the above list.)

See also



References

The Folkloric Study of Chopail(Buddha`s Birthday), written by Prof.M.Y.Pyeon. Produced by Minsokwon in Seoul Korea 2002.
Vesak (Sinhalese) is the most holy time in the Buddhist calendar. In Indian Mahayana Buddhist traditions, the holiday is known by its Sanskrit equivalent, Vaisakha. The word Vesak itself is the Sinhalese language word for the Pali variation, "Visakha".
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Sister systems Hanja, Kanji

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Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音
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Standard Cantonese is a variant of Cantonese Chinese, generally considered to be the prestige dialect. It is spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau in Southern China by 100 million people.
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birthday, for example by having a birthday party with family and/or friends. Gifts are often given to the person celebrating the birthday. It is also customary to treat people specially on their birthday, either generally acceding to their wishes, or subjecting them to a rite of
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Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent and the founder of Buddhism.[1] He is generally recognized by Buddhists as the supreme Buddha (Sammāsambuddha) of our age.
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East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically, it covers about 12,000,000 km², or about 28% of the Asian continent and about 15% bigger than the area of Europe. More than 1.
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Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. In China today, the Gregorian calendar is used for most day to day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional Chinese holidays such
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March of the Volunteers[1]



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Largest district (population) Sha Tin District
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March of the Volunteers


Capital none[1]
Largest freguesia (population) Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima
Official languages Chinese, Portuguese
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Motto
홍익인간(弘益人間) 널리 인간을 이롭게 하?
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Aegukga (애국가; 愛國歌)
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Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull
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  • 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo back from the Moors.

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Motto
जननी जन्मभूमिष्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी   (Sanskrit)
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Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions. Some festivals have their roots in Chinese festivals but have undergone dramatic changes as they mixed with local customs.
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Hydrangea (common names also Hydrangea, in English pronounced IPA [haɪˈdɹeɪnʤ(i)ə], and Hortensia
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