VESAK🌕☸️

Vesak is the religious festival of the Buddhists.☸️ It falls on the full moon day of May. 🌕The exact day changes from year to year.It is the day on which Prince Siddhartha was born. It is the day on which he attained enlightenment which he passed away forty-five years later. Vesak is the day of festivity for all Buddhists☸️. They celebrate Vesak in different ways.

They decorate their homes with light lanterns. Buddhists go to temples and offer and worship 🙏💐🌻flowers and oil lamps🪔🪔to the Buddha on this day. 

Some people erect pandals. Pandals depict jataka stories. They are decorated with blinking multi-colored electric lights.💡

Dansal or centers for distributing alms are an important feature of the Vesak festival. People are served with food and cool drinks at these places.

🌜️Vesak night is a grand festival night Many people go to see vesak pandals and other vesak decorations throughout the night. But the most devout do not go to see Vesak decorations. They go to temples listen to sermons and meditate to free their minds from all evil thoughts.🙏🧘 🧘