Vesak Poya:
Signifies Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment and demise
Of all poyas, Vesak has the utmost significance,
since it celebrates the three major events in the Buddha’s life:
Birth, attaining the Buddhahood and Great Demise. The Buddha’s
journey starts with the young ascetic Sumedha’s determination to
achieve the supremest spiritual status. Dipankara Buddha could well
fathom the weight of the youth’s determination and solemnly
prophesied that Sumedha would be his twenty-fourth successor in eons
to come. And thus the Vesak was born.
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