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April 8 of the lunar calendar is the birth day of Shakyamuni Buddha, and this day is the Buddha Bathing Festival.

Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha was born in the family of King Pure Rice of the Kapila Guardian Kingdom, his surname is Gautama, his name is Siddhartha, because he has the qualifications to inherit the throne, so people call him Siddhartha Prince. Prince Siddhartha was born under the Sanssouci tree in the Lumbini Garden of Kapila, this day is April 8 of the lunar calendar, is the birth day of the Buddha, and later people commemorate the birth day of Shakyamuni Buddha, and this day is set as the Buddha Bathing Festival, on this day, the temple should use pure water to clean the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha when he was a child, and then carry the Buddha statue to parade on the street, which is the Buddha Bathing Festival.

The Buddha Bathing Festival, also known as the Buddha's Birthday and Buddha's Birthday, is a festival of the Tibetan and Dai ethnic groups in China. Disturb the rise of Hu.

The Tibetan people in our country attach great importance to the Buddha Bathing Festival, they call this day the "April Festival", and will also hold activities such as chanting, dancing the slow stop Dharma King Dance, and worshipping the Buddha in various Buddha halls, in addition to the custom of splashing water, but only among the young monks, the activity will also last for several days.

When the Dai people celebrate the Buddha bathing festival, regardless of men, women and children, they have to go to various Buddhist temples in the early morning to worship the Buddha and fasting monks, hold the ceremony of sending the old and welcoming the new, bathe the Buddha, and sprinkle water on the Buddha statue to laugh at the defeat of "washing the dust". After that, they began to splash water on each other, and carried out activities such as lifting, dragon boat racing, and swinging.

1. Buddha's Birthday

It is a day for Northern Buddhism to commemorate and celebrate the birth of Buddha Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism. Buddha's Birthday is also known as Buddha's Birthday, Buddha Bathing Festival, Buddha Irrigation Meeting, Longhua Meeting, Huayan Meeting, etc. The Buddha's Birthday is also called the "Buddha Bathing Festival", and the "Songkran Festival" in Yunnan, China, is derived from the Buddha Bathing Festival.

2. Enlightenment Festival.

On the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, Shakyamuni meditated and enlightened under the Bodhi tree, and since then there has been Buddhism in the world, and the Buddhist leader Shakyamuni Buddha was born. The traditional festival of the Han nationality in China, also known as Laba. It was on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the summer calendar.

On that day, the temple recites sutras and worships the Buddha, and imitates the legend of the shepherd girl offering chyle before the Buddha's enlightenment, and takes fragrant grains and dried fruits to make porridge for the Buddha, commonly known as Laba porridge, which is later performed as a folk custom.

3. Festival of Lights. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a festival for Buddhists to celebrate Shakyamuni's subjugation. Also known as the Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals of the Han nationality.

Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been set as the Lantern Festival, which has evolved to form the folk Lantern Festival, and is integrated with the Shangqing Wuyuan Festival of Chinese Taoism, which is also called the Shangyuan Festival and the Shangyuan Lantern Festival.

4. Nirvana.

A festival to commemorate the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, Chinese Buddhism is scheduled to fall on the 15th day of the second month of the lunar calendar. On the day of Nirvana, the temple holds a Nirvana puja, where people gather to face the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, recite the Buddha's teachings, and make various offerings.

5. Obon.

It is the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year (in some places, especially in South China, it is the 14th day of July), also known as the "Zhongyuan Festival", and in some places it is commonly known as the Ghost Festival and Shi Gu in Duanzhou. According to the Buddhists, on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, Buddhists hold an "Obon Puja" to worship the Buddha and monks, to overcome the six sufferings, and to repay their parents for their kindness.

6. Buddha auspicious day

The World Buddhist Federation set the full moon day of May of the Gregorian calendar and the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar as the "World Buddha Day", and the Buddhist Association of China issued a notice in May 1990: This day is the auspicious day of the Buddha of Chinese Han Buddhism, and grand celebrations will be held in various temples.

The first day of the first month: Maitreya Buddha's Christmas.

The sixth day of the first month: Dingguang Buddha Christmas.

8th day of the second month: Shakyamuni Buddha became a monk.

February 15: Shakyamuni Buddha's Nirvana.

February 19: Avalokiteshvara Christmas.

1. Maitreya Buddha Christmas.

Maitreya Buddha Christmas is on the first day of the first lunar month. Maitreya, Sanskrit name maitreya, Pali name metteyya, transliterated as Cishi. In India, Maitreya has long been worshipped.

For example, volume 45 of the "Addition of One Ahama Sutra" and volume 7 of the "Sutra of Virtuous Tribulation" all take Maitreya as the first Buddha to appear in the future; The twenty-seventh volume of the Abhidhamma Gandharva also contains the events of the Buddha who came to meditate on the Buddhahood; According to the "Famous Monk Biography and Fa Sheng Biography", 480 years after the Buddha's extinction, Aryananda Arhat ascended to the statue of Maitreya painted in the sky, and went to the northeast of the country to build a large statue of Maitreya with a bull's head.

2. Dingguang Buddha Christmas.

On the sixth day of the first month, the light is fixed, and the Sanskrit name is dipam!Kara, the same name as Bally. Transliteration of Ti and Lu, Ti Huan Di. Appeared in a past life and was a Buddha who was conferred by Shakyamuni. It is also made of ingots and light, and lamps, and light, and light, and light, and light.

3. Shakyamuni Buddha's ordination day.

The eighth day of the second lunar month (March 24, 2018) is the day of Shakyamuni Buddha's ordination. Becoming a monk is the only way to become a Buddha, and all the Buddhas of the ten directions have shown the path of becoming a Buddha. Shakyamuni was born in ancient India more than 3,000 years ago, and his life was revealed, witnessing old age, sickness and death, abandoning the throne, his wife, and 60,000 maids in the harem.

4. Buddha's Birthday.

It is also known as the Buddha Bathing Festival, the Buddha Irrigation Society, the Longhua Society, the Huayan Society, etc. Since ancient times, a series of grand Buddha bathing ceremonies and celebrations have been held in the Buddhist temple Duzai on that day, praying for the Buddha to bless the society and eliminate disasters, as well as inviting the Dharma Master to open the altar and preach the Tao. Buddhists use this day to review and learn the Buddha's teachings on compassion.

Buddha's Birthday is celebrated in Chinese mainland, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Macau. Historically, due to the conversion of the calendars in different places, according to different Buddhist scriptures and traditions that have been passed down to different regions, there may be large differences in the dates of the Gregorian calendar.

5. Garan Bodhisattva Christmas.

Garan Bodhisattva's Christmas is on the 13th day of the fifth lunar month. Garan, the abbreviation of Sangha Rama, is translated into Chinese as the garden, that is, the garden where the monks live, that is, the common name of the temple. Garan Bodhisattvas are the Bodhisattvas who protect Garan, and this is not one.