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TheravÄda 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 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.
In Thailand, the name Buddhist Era is a year numbering system shared by the traditional Thai lunar calendar and by the Thai solar calendar. The Southeast Asian lunisolar calendars are largely based on an older version of the Hindu calendar, [1] which uses the sidereal year as the solar year. One major difference is that the Southeast Asian ...
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]
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Buddhist New Year may refer to: Buddhist calendar#New Year's Day; Theravada New Year (Songkran), water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Theravada Buddhist calendar Songkran (Thailand) Thingyan, in Myanmar; Sinhalese New Year (Aluth Avurudda), in Sri Lanka; Cambodian New Year (Choul Chnam Thmey), in Cambodia
Beginning at sundown on Friday, September 15, 2023, Jews around the world will begin to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which ends at sundown on Sunday, September 17, 2023.
In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal.