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Mar 03, 2009 8:43 am
Tuesday 3 March 2009 Hanamatsuri Buddha's Birthday
Today is the Budhhist Celebration Hanamatsuri. This flower festival marks the Japanese celebration of the Buddha Shakyamuni's Birthday, which Mahayana Buddhists fix in 565 BCE.
The flowers accentuate the tradition that the Buddha was born in a garden, so floral shrines are made and an image of the infant Buddha is set in it and bathed.
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Mar 06, 2009 8:05 am
Thank you, Daneko.
In the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, the anniversary of Buddha's birth at Lumbini will be 10th of June 2009.
Kind wishes to you.
Elen