Buddhists celebrate Prabarana Purnima flying lighted balloons
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Buddhists in Bangladesh celebrated their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima – on October 9 like every year flying lighted balloons made of thin papers, also called Phanus Baji.
This full moon day signifies the end of the three-month Lent of Bhikkhus.
When Buddha renounced the world, he cut his hair and threw it into the air, saying: "If my aim and mission of renunciation are fruitful, this tress of hair will go upwards, and if my object and ambition becomes fruitless, it will fall on the ground."
Buddhists believe that the tress of hair went flying into the sky according to the will of Gautama. Launching the sky lanterns is a symbol and commemoration of Gautama's emphatic prediction.
Also known as Ashwini Purnima, the festival marks the end of the three-month seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self-edification and atonement of their defilement.
Photos captured from Basabo Basabo Buddho Mondir.Photo: Abu Sufian Jewel /UNB.
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Buddhists in Bangladesh celebrated their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima – on October 9 like every year flying lighted balloons made of thin papers, also called Phanus Baji.
This full moon day signifies the end of the three-month Lent of Bhikkhus.
When Buddha renounced the world, he cut his hair and threw it into the air, saying: "If my aim and mission of renunciation are fruitful, this tress of hair will go upwards, and if my object and ambition becomes fruitless, it will fall on the ground."
Buddhists believe that the tress of hair went flying into the sky according to the will of Gautama. Launching the sky lanterns is a symbol and commemoration of Gautama's emphatic prediction.
Also known as Ashwini Purnima, the festival marks the end of the three-month seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self-edification and atonement of their defilement.
Photos captured from Basabo Basabo Buddho Mondir.Photo: Abu Sufian Jewel /UNB.
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Buddhists in Bangladesh celebrated their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima – on October 9 like every year flying lighted balloons made of thin papers, also called Phanus Baji.
This full moon day signifies the end of the three-month Lent of Bhikkhus.
When Buddha renounced the world, he cut his hair and threw it into the air, saying: "If my aim and mission of renunciation are fruitful, this tress of hair will go upwards, and if my object and ambition becomes fruitless, it will fall on the ground."
Buddhists believe that the tress of hair went flying into the sky according to the will of Gautama. Launching the sky lanterns is a symbol and commemoration of Gautama's emphatic prediction.
Also known as Ashwini Purnima, the festival marks the end of the three-month seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self-edification and atonement of their defilement.
Photos captured from Basabo Basabo Buddho Mondir.Photo: Abu Sufian Jewel /UNB.
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Buddhists in Bangladesh celebrated their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima – on October 9 like every year flying lighted balloons made of thin papers, also called Phanus Baji.
This full moon day signifies the end of the three-month Lent of Bhikkhus.
When Buddha renounced the world, he cut his hair and threw it into the air, saying: "If my aim and mission of renunciation are fruitful, this tress of hair will go upwards, and if my object and ambition becomes fruitless, it will fall on the ground."
Buddhists believe that the tress of hair went flying into the sky according to the will of Gautama. Launching the sky lanterns is a symbol and commemoration of Gautama's emphatic prediction.
Also known as Ashwini Purnima, the festival marks the end of the three-month seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self-edification and atonement of their defilement.
Photos captured from Basabo Basabo Buddho Mondir.Photo: Abu Sufian Jewel /UNB.