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  2. Theravada New Year - Wikipedia

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    Theravāda New Year, also known as Songkran, is the water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Theravada Buddhist calendar widely celebrated across South and Southeast Asia in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam, and Xishuangbanna, China [2] [3] begins on 13 April of the year.

  3. Buddhist calendar - Wikipedia

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    Since the main purpose of Buddhist calendar is to keep pace with the solar year, the new year is always marked by the solar year, which falls at the time when the Sun enters Aries. [5] The date, which at the present falls on the 17th of April, has slowly drifted over the centuries.

  4. Losar - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] The holiday is a new year's festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. [1] In 2024, the new year commenced on 10 February and celebrations ran until the 12th of the same month. It also commenced the Year of the Male Wood Dragon.

  5. Buddhist holidays - Wikipedia

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    New robes and other requisites can be offered by the laity to the monks. Abhidhamma Day: According to Burmese tradition, this day celebrates when the Buddha went to the Tushita Heaven to teach his mother the Abhidhamma. It is celebrated on the full moon of the seventh month the Burmese lunar year which starts in April. [3] [4]

  6. Tibetan calendar - Wikipedia

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    In Tibetan calendars of the second half of the 20th century and on Tibetan coins cardinal year numbers are found with the indication of raplo, where the first year coincides with the first year of the rabjyung-cycle, that is 1027. Rab lo 928, for example, is the year of 1954 on the western Gregorian calendar.

  7. Buddhist New Year - Wikipedia

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    Mahayana New Year, a festival celebrating the traditional new year for the Mahayana Buddhist calendar that usually falls on the full moon of January; Losar (Tibetan New Year), a new year's festival in Tibetan Buddhism that is celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar

  8. Here's Everything to Know About the Buddhist Holiday Asalha Puja

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    According to Tricycle, a Buddhist publication, this holiday is also significant because it's a celebration of beginnings. The history of the holiday starts with when the Buddha gained ...

  9. List of Burmese traditional festivals - Wikipedia

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    Marks the beginning of the Burmese new year Gadaw (paying obeisance to elders), water games, observation of the Buddhist Sabbath , parades Kason (May) Bo tree watering festival Full moon of Kason Marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha Watering of the Bo tree: Nayon (June) Tipitaka Festival