Vesak - The Festival of Lights 🌕🪔

Vesak is often known as the festival of lights✨ in Sri Lanka. Vesak has a special significance in Sri Lanka, celebrated on the day of the full moon🌕 in May.
Vesak commemorates the three most important milestones in the life of Gautama Buddha which is His birth, enlightenment, and Parinirvana. (passing away)
Visiting the Temple is a part of the Vesak Poya day activities of every Buddhist family.
Young and old alike offer flowers and light oil lamps🪔 , with many observing sil all day.
Buddhists in Sri Lanka spend the Vesak Poya day engaged in meditation and meritorious deeds. Families prepare decorations consisting of paper lanterns, as every lantern or ‘kudu’ is unique and produced with dedicated devotion and piety.
Pandols are another beautiful expression of homage to Lord Buddha.
These are board-like structures with illustrations of folk tales associated with the Blessed One.✨
Dansal or alms-giving stalls are the most meritorious acts one can engage in during the Vesak festivities.
Vesak is a combination of holiness and joy, a remembering of timeless precepts, and an awakening of new

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