Rupandehi, May 15 (RSS): Preparations for the 2566th Buddha Jayanti and Lumbini Day have been completed. Buddha Jayanti is celebrated every year on the full moon day of Baisakh Shukla by organizing various programs in Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha.
Member-Secretary of the Lumbini
Development Trust Sanuraja Shakya informed that preparations for the Buddha
Jayanti program have been completed. Lumbini has been specially decorated this
time as compared to previous years, as it is being observed after a couple of
years due to the Corona Virus pandemic
An international Buddhist assembly
hall and meditation center in Lumbini is also scheduled to be inaugurated on
Buddha Jayanti. The meeting hall with state-of-the-art facilities has been
completed in four years. The hall will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Sher
Bahadur Deuba.
According to Saroj Bhattarai,
Planning Chief of Lumbini Development Trust, the total cost of the meeting hall
is around Rs. 740 million.
Treasurer of the Trust and
coordinator of the publicity sub-committee Dhundi Raj Bhattarai informed that a
special program will be held for four days at Tilaurakot of Devadaha and
Kapilvastu on the occasion of Buddha Jayanti.
According to him, a special program
will be held at Ramgram of Nawalparasi today on the occasion of Buddha Jayanti
and Lumbini Day. A special Buddha Jayanti celebration will be held in Lumbini
on May 16. Program will be held in Tilaurakot of Kapilvastu on May 17 and
18.
According to Buddhist scriptures, Siddhartha
Gautama was born on the day of Baisakh Purnima in 623 BC, when Queen Mayadevi,
wife of King Suddhodana of Kapilvastu gave birth at Lumbini Garden on her way
to her mother's home in Devdaha.