2025 Vesak Celebration

Описание: At Dhammadharini, our Vesak Day celebration is a time for the community to come together in honoring the Buddha’s birth, awakening, and Parinibbana through meaningful rituals, reflection, and shared devotion.

One of the central rituals of the day is the Buddha bathing ceremony, where we display a small Buddha statue in front of the altar, placed in a flower-adorned basin filled with water. Bhikkhunis and laypeople are invited to gently pour water over the statue—a symbolic gesture representing the cleansing of one’s past karma and renewing the heart with fresh intentions for the path ahead. This act also reenacts the sacred moment after the Buddha’s birth, when devas and celestial beings bathed the newborn Buddha and made heavenly offerings in his honor.