The United Nations Day of Vesak 2025 will feature several landmark events, including the inaugural exhibition of 87 national Buddhist treasures and a grand Buddhist flag-raising ceremony with a 500m² ...

Srilanka, May 2 -- The government has officially declared National Vesak Week from May 10 to 16, with this year's State Vesak Festival to be held in the Nuwara Eliya District. The celebrations ...

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena hoisted the Buddhist flag officially commencing the Vesak week at the ancient Deepadutthamarama Thai Temple, Kotahena on Tuesday (02). It is significant that after ...

5. Hoisting the Buddha's Flag. The Buddha's flag has six vertical stripes in blue, yellow, red, white, and orange. This flag was designed by J.R. de Silva and Colonel Henry S. Olcott in the 1800s.

More than 3,500 monks from 50 countries will take part in a ceremony to mark Vesak, ... governors across Thailand to raise the nation's flag along with the Buddhist flag to promote Vesak Day. ...

"Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B ...

Learn about the Buddhist festival of Vesak with Art and Enda and how their family celebrates it in this BBC Bitesize guide for Reception.

Colombo, May 2 (Daily Mirror) - The Vesak Poya Day (12) should not be turned into a day of musical shows or carnivals but the day should be spent as a full religious day to make practice-based ...

The government has officially declared National Vesak Week from May 10 to 16, ... All public and private institutions, as well as homes, have been requested to hoist the Buddhist flag and decorate ...