Local Buddhists will gather at Warren Fitzgerald Community Auditorium June 16 to celebrate International Vesak Day. The celebration commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Buddha Gautama ...

Vesak Day celebrates Buddha Gautama, the Great Teacher or Spiritual Guru around the 5th century BC. Also known as Siddhartha Gautama, he was born into royalty but believed that wealth did not ...

Vesak calls everyone following the teachings of the Buddha to reflect on his teachings and what it means to be a Buddhist Sri Lanka stands out as a predominantly Buddhist country that has celebrated ...

As the full moon of Vesak rises above the land, a nation pauses—its streets lined with lanterns, its homes lit with devotion, and its people immersed in rituals passed down for generations. For ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (RNS) — With all temples in Malaysia closed to the public in an effort to curb the coronavirus outbreak, the country’s 5.4 million Buddhists — the second largest faith group in ...

Thailand is one of the largest Buddhist countries in the world. The Land of Smiles designates Vesak Day or Visakha Bucha Day as a national holiday for the entire population. Buddhists in Thailand ...