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Vesākha Puja Day (and making merit) ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
Although May/ late spring celebrations in Buddhism go back centuries, it was only in 1950 that the Buddhist world agreed to celebrate Vesākha Puja together, on the full moon day in the month of May. In other words, May 25th this year. In other Buddhist communities, the holiday celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and death of…
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