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An Uposatha ( Sanskrit: Upavasatha) day is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence since the Buddha's time (600 BCE), and still being kept today by Buddhist practitioners. [ 1][ 2] The Buddha taught that the Uposatha day is for "the cleansing of the defiled mind," resulting in inner calm and joy. [ 3] On this day, both lay and ordained ...
A Poya occurs every full moon. [1] [2] Uposatha is important to Buddhists all around the world, who have adopted the lunar calendar for their religious observances.Owing to the moon's fullness of size as well as its effulgence, the full moon day is treated as the most auspicious of the four lunar phases occurring once every lunar month (29.5 days) and thus marked by a holiday.
Lantern Festival (in China) Tết Nguyên Tiêu (in Vietnam)[ 3] Māgha Pūjā (also written as Makha Bucha Day) is a Buddhist festival celebrated on the full moon day of the third lunar month [ 7] in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka and on the full moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar. It is the second most important Buddhist festival after Vesak ...
A total lunar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, 8 November 2022. The southern limb of the Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. It surpassed the previous eclipse as the longest total lunar eclipse visible from nearly all of North America since 17 August 1989, and until 26 June 2029. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Occurring only 5.8 days before apogee ...
On Monday, November 27, 2023, at 4:16 a.m. ET, the full moon in Gemini will illuminate the sky, and this is one lunar event that will have everyone talking. Full moons provide an opportunity to ...
The 15th of the waxing is the civil full moon day. The civil new moon day is the last day of the month (14th or 15th waning). Because of the inaccuracy of the calendrical calculation systems, the mean and real (true) New Moons rarely coincide.
Jose A. Bernat Bacete. The last full moon of the autumn season occurs on Nov. 27 in the air sign Gemini. Nicknamed the Beaver Moon, this lunation marks the end of fall. In less than a month ...
Ānāpānasati ( Pali; Sanskrit: ānāpānasmṛti ), meaning " mindfulness of breathing " ( sati means mindfulness; ānāpāna refers to inhalation and exhalation [ 1][better source needed] ), is the act of paying attention to the breath. It is the quintessential form of Buddhist meditation, attributed to Gautama Buddha, and described in ...