The Colombo City Centre (CCC) had in store an array of activities for the Vesak season, under the theme ‘Enlightening the City this Vesak’. The salient feature of the décor and activations for the ...

Vesak lanterns, pandals and other Vesak decorations are taking shape in people’s homes and workplaces and even behind the forbiddingly high walls of the Welikada jail. Inmates of the Welikada prison ...

Sky lanterns are pictured during the Vesak Day celebration at Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, on June 4, 2023. (Photo by Agung Supriyantoo/Xinhua) People release sky lanterns ...

As the full moon of Vesak rises above the land, a nation pauses—its streets lined with lanterns, its homes lit with devotion, and its people immersed in rituals passed down for generations. For ...

In a strange way, the prevailing COVID-19 crisis saw Lankans marking this all- important event in the Buddhist calendar with more serenity and reverence 1955 was a landmark year for Ceylonese ...

Indonesian Buddhists released thousands of sky lanterns in celebration of Vesak, the day of the full moon in the month of May. Vesak is one of the most sacred days to millions of Buddhists around the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Staten Island Buddhist Vihara (SIBV) is planning to host its annual Vesak celebration on Sunday, May 3. Vesak is the holiest day of the Buddhist calendar and is celebrated ...

Thousands gathered in Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the UN Day of Vesak with a glowing lantern ceremony symbolizing compassion and unity. On the evening of May 6, Minister of Ethnic and Religious ...