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Declared with pristine sublimity on the first full-moon night of May, it is primarily celebrated in\u00a0the Baisakh\u00a0month of the\u00a0Buddhist calendar\u00a0and the\u00a0Bikram Sambat\u00a0Hindu calendar, and hence the festival also goes by the name\u00a0\u2019Vesak\u2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Buddhist temples and monasteries, \u2018sutras\u2019 or verses are chanted, beautiful flowers offered, lamps are lit and incense is burnt. Some of the temples present a small idol of Lord Buddha as an infant in a basin full of water and aromatic flowers. The devotees pour water on this idol, all divine gestures that resound the start of a fresh new life. Devotees also wear white on this day, offer food and goods to the underprivileged, prepare Kheer (a popular delicacy of North India made of sweet milk and rice) to remember the tale of the milkmaid Sujata, who offered a bowl of Kheer to Lord Buddha.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOther countries such as Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka celebrate it with as much vigor, wherein Sri Lanka is a host this day to some of the most fantastic mime and street theatre performances, staged on tall platforms throughout the cities and towns near the temples. Buddhism though having been found in India, has found fertile ground in countries as far and wide as Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan, Tibet,\u00a0Japan, Laos, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam. The pillars of Lord Buddha\u2019s middle path - that of detachment, karmic balance, knowledge, immaterialism, and reincarnation makes this world a glorious mandala of spiritual and intellectual harmony.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n      \n    \u003C\/div\u003E\n  \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/article\u003E\n","dialogOptions":{"modal":true,"title":"Buddha Purnima "}}]