The Vesak Festival 🔆

               

              Vesak is considered as both a religious and cultural festival in Sri Lanka. It is celebrated on the day of the full moon in May. This festival marks the birth, enlightenment and passing away into Nirvana of the our Lord Buddha. The weeklong celebration gives the visitor a unique opportunity to discover Sri Lanka's religious and cultural traditions.

             Many religious activities are organized during this period in Sri Lanka. In temples Buddhists worship, offer flowers, light lamps and burn incense. Other than the exclusive religious aspects of the festival, the Buddhists of Sri Lanka, decorate their houses and public places with colourful lanterns called Vesak koodu are hung along streets and in front of homes and arrange for various cultural events to bring happiness to everyone on that day.Our house is always made of 7 lotus flowers and beautifully pasted. garden is decorated with bulbs. lamps are lit on both sides of the road.


Electri-cally lit pandal-s called Torana-s are erected in variou-s locations mainly in Colombo, Kandy, Galle and elsewhere. Food stalls set up by Buddhist devotees called Dansalas provide free food and drinks to passersby. Also we give a rice dansala for every Vesak festival..it is a very enjoyable work for us ...There are some fantastic mime and street theatre performances, staged on tall platforms throughout the cities and towns near the temples.

           For Vesak we decorate the temple with bulbs ... Vesak lanterns are hung ... bulb vines are hung ..They also light lamps ... hold a Dharma Sasana ... sing "Bhakthi Geetha" ..

          Vesak is also a time for great joy and happiness, expressed not by pandering to one’s appetites but by concentrating on useful activities such as decorating and illuminating temples, painting and creating exquisite scenes


From the life of the Buddha for public dissemination. Devout Buddhists also
vie with one another to provide refreshments and vegetarian food to followers who visit the temple to pay homage to the Enlightened One.

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