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Buddha's Birthday or Buddha Day (also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, and Buddha Pournami) is a primarily Buddhist festival that is celebrated in most of South, Southeast and East Asia, commemorating the birth of the prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Gautama Buddha and founded Buddhism.
In China, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines, Buddha's Birthday is celebrated on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. In Japan, Buddha's Birthday is observed on the same date but in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. 8 April. In Myanmar, Buddha's Birthday is celebrated as Full Moon of Kasun and is a public holiday. It is ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Buddha's Birthday: Lễ Phật Đản Lễ Vesak: Birthday, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha (born in 563 BC or 480 BC in Lumbini) - the founder of Buddhism Formerly held on April 8 (in Chinese calendar) until 1959. Buddhist festival, former public holiday of Vietnam until 1975 5 of 5th month: Tết Đoan Ngọ: Tết Đoan Ngọ
Another un-recognized Buddhist organization is the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam which has existed in the former South Vietnam during Vietnam War. [68] However many of its followers have joined the newly established Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam, [69] some followers resent the socialist government and oppose the new sangha. [70]
In Vietnam, Buddha’s birthday is a still popular festival, but not a public holiday, which it was from 1958 to 1975 in what was formerly South Vietnam. ___
Vietnam has had a diverse range of cultural poetry throughout its history. [11] Historically, Vietnamese poetry consists of three language traditions. Each poetry was written exclusively in Classical Chinese and later incorporated Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary. It was also often centered around the themes and traditions of Buddhism and Confucianism.
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War, Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [1]