India commemorated
the 2500th Buddha Jayanti with the two impressive stamps on the
First Day Cover. A folder was also issued by the Postal Department as shown. It
has two pages with the commemorative stamp on each page. I got them cancelled
with the special cancellation also.
Vesākha, Wesak or Vesak, also
known as Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday observed
traditionally by Buddhists on different days inNepal, Sri Lanka, Tibet,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and vthe South East Asian countries of Philippines,Singapore,
Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia, and other
places all over the world. Sometimes informally called”Buddha’s Birthday”, it
actually commemorates the birth, enlightenment (nirvana), and death (Parinirvana)
of Gautam Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition.
The exact date of
Vesak is based on the Asian lunisolar calendar and is primarily celebrated in Vaisaka
month of the Buddhist Calendar and the Hindu calendar, and hence the name
Vesak. In India and Nepal, which is considered the birth-country of Buddha, it
is celebrated on the full moon day of theVaisakha month of the Hindu
calendar, and is traditionally called Buddha Purnima, Purnima meaning the full
moon day in Sanskrit. In Theravada countries following the Buddhist calendar, it
falls on a full moon Uposatha day, typically in the 5th or 6th lunar month. In
China and Korea, it is celebrated on the eighth day of the fourth month in the
Chinese lunar calendar. The date varies from year to year in the Western
Gregorian calendar, but usually falls in April or May. In leap years it may be
celebrated in June.
The name of the
observance is derived from the Pali term vesākha
or Sanskrit vaiśākha,
which is the name of the lunar month in the Hindu calendar falling
in April–May (seeVaisakha). In Mahayana Buddhist
traditions, the holiday is known by its Sanskrit name (Vaiśākha) and derived
variants of it.
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