Chittagong Bureau :
Buddhists in the city and district celebrated one of the major religious festivals Ashari Purnima with solemn devotion and traditional enthusiasm.
Ashari Purnima celebrated by the members of the Buddhist community across the country to commemorate three significant incidences of Buddha’s life which took place on this single day.
On this day, restless and dissatisfied with his opulent prince Siddhartha, renounced his kingdom, even his wife and son when he was just 29 years old in quest of eternal truth.
The festival is mostly important that Siddharta Goutom after attaining supreme enlightenment in six years rigorous meditation as Buddha preached his first sermon among his five disciples at Banaras of Sarnath in India.
The purnima is thirdly important as the Buddhist monks will go for three months long seclusion inside their monasteries for atonement of their defilement from the following day if any till another festival Prabarana Purnima. Commemorating those events, the Buddhists all over the world have been observing the rites and rituals on the same day for ages.
These performances delight and purify the minds, encouraging doing well deeds that eventually, bring peace and happiness in the lives, and progress in the society and the state as well.
The festival is being celebrated in all monasteries through daylong programmes.
The day’s programme includes hoisting of the national and religious flags atop all monasteries and chanting of the sacred verses from the Tripitaka.Breaking of fasting of the monks, discussion meetings, recitation of the religious discourses from the Holy Scriptures by the devotees, blood donation and meditation are other highlights of the festival.
In the city, the main congregations held at Nandankan Buddhist Temple, Katalganj Nabapandit Vihar, Purnachar International Buddhist Monastery, Mughaltoli Shakkymuni Mohasasan complex and Momin road Sarbajonin Bouddha Vihar.
In Nandankanon Buddhist temple, Venerable Dr Gnyansree Mohathero also its high priest conduct s the mass prayer while Venerable Tilokabangsha Thero Director of the Mughaltoli Shakkymuni Mohasasan complex conducted the prayer cum meditation course. Bhuddisht monasteries of the different upazilas of Chittagong also undertaken series of programs on the occasion, sources said.
Buddhists in the city and district celebrated one of the major religious festivals Ashari Purnima with solemn devotion and traditional enthusiasm.
Ashari Purnima celebrated by the members of the Buddhist community across the country to commemorate three significant incidences of Buddha’s life which took place on this single day.
On this day, restless and dissatisfied with his opulent prince Siddhartha, renounced his kingdom, even his wife and son when he was just 29 years old in quest of eternal truth.
The festival is mostly important that Siddharta Goutom after attaining supreme enlightenment in six years rigorous meditation as Buddha preached his first sermon among his five disciples at Banaras of Sarnath in India.
The purnima is thirdly important as the Buddhist monks will go for three months long seclusion inside their monasteries for atonement of their defilement from the following day if any till another festival Prabarana Purnima. Commemorating those events, the Buddhists all over the world have been observing the rites and rituals on the same day for ages.
These performances delight and purify the minds, encouraging doing well deeds that eventually, bring peace and happiness in the lives, and progress in the society and the state as well.
The festival is being celebrated in all monasteries through daylong programmes.
The day’s programme includes hoisting of the national and religious flags atop all monasteries and chanting of the sacred verses from the Tripitaka.Breaking of fasting of the monks, discussion meetings, recitation of the religious discourses from the Holy Scriptures by the devotees, blood donation and meditation are other highlights of the festival.
In the city, the main congregations held at Nandankan Buddhist Temple, Katalganj Nabapandit Vihar, Purnachar International Buddhist Monastery, Mughaltoli Shakkymuni Mohasasan complex and Momin road Sarbajonin Bouddha Vihar.
In Nandankanon Buddhist temple, Venerable Dr Gnyansree Mohathero also its high priest conduct s the mass prayer while Venerable Tilokabangsha Thero Director of the Mughaltoli Shakkymuni Mohasasan complex conducted the prayer cum meditation course. Bhuddisht monasteries of the different upazilas of Chittagong also undertaken series of programs on the occasion, sources said.
