INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
RUPANDEHI, MAY 15Preparations for the 2,566th Buddha
Jayanti and Lumbini Day have been completed
Buddha Jayanti is celebrated every year on the full moon day of Baisakh Shukla by organising various programmes in Lumbini, the birthplace
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Member-secretary of Lumbini Development Trust Sanuraja Shakya said preparations for the Buddha Jayanti programme had been completed
Lumbini has been specially decorated this time compared to previous years, as it is being observed after a couple of years due to the
coronavirus pandemic An international Buddhist assembly hall and meditation centre in Lumbini is also scheduled to be inaugurated on Buddha
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 programme would be held for four days at Tilaurakot of Devadaha and Kapilvastu on
the occasion of Buddha Jayanti
According to him, a special programme 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
Programme will be held in Tilaurakot of Kapilvastu on May 17 and 18.As per 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.A version of this article appears in the print on May 16, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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