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In Sri Lanka, Vesak is celebrated as both a religious and cultural festival. It is observed on the full moon day in May. This festival commemorates the Lord Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and ascension into Nirvana. The week-long celebration provides visitors with an exceptional chance to learn about Sri Lanka's religious and cultural traditions.
Visiting the Temple is an important part of every Buddhist family's Vesak Poya day activities. So my family also went to the village temple to worship.
On the way to the temple , I got eye-catching photographs to show you how Sri Lankans celebrate the festival.
Stupa In the temple was decorated using small bulbs.
The road was decorated using flags, Vesak lanterns and colorful bulbs.
Families prepare decorations in the days preceding Vesak in their homes, consisting of paper lanterns like this.
Tiny Clay oil lamps were lit up in the Vesak day evening.
Colorful lanterns called Vesak kudu are hung along streets and in front of homes and arrange for various cultural events to bring happiness to everyone on that day. The true creative talents of the people in this island emerge during this time as these every lantern or ‘kudu’ is unique.
There were some fantastic mime and street theatre performances, staged on tall platforms throughout the cities and towns near the temples.
Young and old alike offer flowers and light oil lamps, and many people spend the entire day watching sil. Vesak is also a time for great joy and happiness, which is expressed not by satisfying one's appetites but by focusing on useful activities such as decorating and illuminating temples, painting and creating exquisite scenes from the Buddha's life for public dissemination. Devout Buddhists also compete to provide refreshments and vegetarian food to followers who come to the temple to pay their respects to the Enlightened One.
So this is one of the major festival for Sri Lankans, specially for Buddhists in the country.
This is my today post and hope to write again about the cultural festivals in Sri Lanka.
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