How we celebrated our wesak last year. ๐
About wesak festival. Vesak festival is a religious festival. It is celebrated during May, by Buddhists all over the world. On this day, all Buddhists go to the temple, offer flowers, light oil lamps, and worship the Buddha. Most of the Buddhists observe sil. Buddhists commemorate the important events that took place in the life of Lord Buddha on this day. First comes the birth of Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini in Nepal which took place under the arbor of Sat trees where queen Mahamaya gave birth to him. The second event was Siddharta Gautam’s supreme attainment as the Buddha, the Enlightened One. The third event was Lord Buddha’s Parinibbana over 2500 years ago at kusinagar. How we celebrated wesak First we cut bamboo and made Vesak lanterns.๐๐ The whole family got together and made different lanterns. Father worked hard for that. Mom and I decorated them beautifully.๐ On the day of Vesak, our brother and father hung them beautifully. Afte...