UNB, Dhaka :
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, was celebrated in the country on Wednesday with due fervour.
Different Buddhist organisations arranged various programmes on the occasion. The day was a public holiday.
Bangladesh Bouddha Sangskritik Parishad organised a rally from in front of the National Museum in the city in the morning.
President Abdul Hamid exchanged greetings with members of the Buddhist community at Bangabhaban in the afternoon on the occasion.
Religious Affairs Minister Principal Matior Rahman, Buddhist
religious leaders, ambassadors and high commissioners of different predominantly Buddhist countries, including Sri Lanka and Myanmar, representatives of various international organisations and professionals of the Buddhist community attended the reception.
Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. It falls on the day of the full moon in May. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Kopilabostu at the foothill of the Himalayas. He attained supreme enlightenment at the age of 35 and finally departed into ‘nirvana’ at the age of 80 in 483 BC.
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, was celebrated in the country on Wednesday with due fervour.
Different Buddhist organisations arranged various programmes on the occasion. The day was a public holiday.
Bangladesh Bouddha Sangskritik Parishad organised a rally from in front of the National Museum in the city in the morning.
President Abdul Hamid exchanged greetings with members of the Buddhist community at Bangabhaban in the afternoon on the occasion.
Religious Affairs Minister Principal Matior Rahman, Buddhist
religious leaders, ambassadors and high commissioners of different predominantly Buddhist countries, including Sri Lanka and Myanmar, representatives of various international organisations and professionals of the Buddhist community attended the reception.
Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. It falls on the day of the full moon in May. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Kopilabostu at the foothill of the Himalayas. He attained supreme enlightenment at the age of 35 and finally departed into ‘nirvana’ at the age of 80 in 483 BC.
