By Victor M Fontané
Last Sunday, May 19, Buddhists around the World celebrated The Vesak Festival. What is the meaning and importance of this celebration?
It has been written – on the first Full Moon of Taurus – the Spiritual Hierarchy creates a yearly Event – during which Divine Grace and Mercy are Released with an incredible intensity – in far greater Quantities. The Vesak Festival Celebration is interlaced with the Loving and Compassionate Energies of the Lord Buddha and the Lord Jesus Christ. This Festival and Celebration is a yearly Source of Inner Strength and Rapid Spiritual Development for all Practitioners.
Vesak (Pali: Vesākha, Sanskrit: Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists and some Hindus on different days in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, and in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwanand Vietnam as "Buddha's Birthday" as well as in other parts of the world. The festival commemorates the birth, enlightenment (Buddhahood), and death (Parinirvāna) of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition.
With some minor differences, Buddhist groups attend their local temple to practice Giving, Virtue or reaffirming commitment to the moral precepts and Cultivation or chanting, meditation and listening to sermons or teachings and doing good and meritorious deeds.
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