Chittagong Bureau :
Buddhists here celebrated their second largest festival Prabarana Purnima in the city as elsewhere in the district yesterday with traditional enthusiasm and due solemnity.
The festival is also known as Ashvini Purnima that marks conclusion of the three-month long seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self edification and atonement of their defilement.
The Purnima follows a month-long preaching of sermons by the Buddhist monks for the welfare of every beings and whole humankind through a month long yellow robes offering ceremony that begins from yesterday.
According to the legend, Buddha once clipped some strands of hair from his head and said that if he were qualified to attain supreme wisdom and enlightenment, the hairs would not fall down but go up instead, in the long run which they did.
To mark this event, the Buddhists released candle lit air balloons made of coloured paper and set free to flow towards the sky in the evening which is the chief attraction of the festival.
Buddhists here celebrated their second largest festival Prabarana Purnima in the city as elsewhere in the district yesterday with traditional enthusiasm and due solemnity.
The festival is also known as Ashvini Purnima that marks conclusion of the three-month long seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self edification and atonement of their defilement.
The Purnima follows a month-long preaching of sermons by the Buddhist monks for the welfare of every beings and whole humankind through a month long yellow robes offering ceremony that begins from yesterday.
According to the legend, Buddha once clipped some strands of hair from his head and said that if he were qualified to attain supreme wisdom and enlightenment, the hairs would not fall down but go up instead, in the long run which they did.
To mark this event, the Buddhists released candle lit air balloons made of coloured paper and set free to flow towards the sky in the evening which is the chief attraction of the festival.
