In 2025, Vesak Day in Indonesia falls on Monday, May 12, a designated national holiday Each year, the Vesak celebration adopts a different theme. This year, based on the official website of Walubi , ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Directorate General of Corrections at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights has granted special remission for Vesak Day to 1,077 inmates and sentence reductions to two Buddhist ...

Buddhist monks release a flying lantern during the Vesak Day celebration at Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, on June 4, 2023.

MAGELANG, Indonesia ... These days, however, it rarely sees crowds as big as the 45,000 who flocked there in early May for the annual Vesak Day celebration of the Buddha's birth, ...

Vesak (say "VEE-sak") is the most important day in the Buddhist calendar. It’s a holiday that celebrates the birth of Buddha. He's the person who began the religion known as Buddhism. The day is ...

Wesak, more widely known as Vesak in the global community, is also known as Waisak in Indonesia, Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima in India and Nepal, and Buddha Day in various other countries ...

YOGYAKARTA: Thirty-six Thai monks arrived at Borobudur Temple on Saturday, marking the culmination of a spiritual pilgrimage spanning over 2,500 kilometres on foot from Thailand to Indonesia in ...

"Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B ...

In her Vesak day message, Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya wished that this Vesak celebration be a blessed one filled with kindness and compassion towards all living beings The full text of the ...