Buddha Purnima during Vaishakha month is celebrated as birth anniversary of Gautama Buddha. Gautama Buddha whose birth name was Siddhartha Gautama was a spiritual teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

1. Buddha Purnima
Buddha Purnima during Vaishakha month is celebrated as birth anniversary of Gautama
Buddha. Gautama Buddha whose birth name was Siddhartha Gautama was a spiritual teacher
on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
According to the Theravada Tripitaka scriptures (from Pali, meaning "three baskets"), Gautama
was born in Lumbini in modern-day Nepal, around the year 563 BCE, and raised in Kapilavastu.
In Nepal and neighboring South-east Asian countries, Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the full
moon day of the Vaisakha month of the Buddhist calendar and the Hindu calendar, Buddha
Purnima 4th
May 2015. Buddha Poornima also known as Buddha Jayanti is the most sacred
festivals of Buddhist. The festival is known by various names, Buddha Jayanti, Buddha
Purnima, Vaishakh Purnima and Vesak.
According to this legend, briefly after the birth of young prince Gautama, an astrologer named
Asita visited the young prince's father , King Suddhodana and prophesied that Siddhartha
would either become a great king or renounce the material world to become a holy man,
depending on whether he saw what life was like outside the palace walls.
Suddhodana was determined to see his son become a king, so he prevented him from leaving
the palace grounds. But at age 29, despite his father's efforts, Gautama ventured beyond the
palace several times. In a series of encounters—known in Buddhist literature as the four sights
—he learned of the suffering of ordinary people, encountering an old man, a sick man, a corpse
and, finally, an ascetic holy man, apparently content and at peace with the world. These
experiences prompted Gautama to abandon royal life and take
In North India Buddha is considered as the 9th incarnation and Lord Krishna as the 8th
incarnation of Lord Vishnu. However Buddha is never considered as an Avatar of Vishnu in
South Indian belief. In South India Balarama is considered as the 8th incarnation and Krishna as
the 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Balarama is counted as an incarnation of Vishnu by the
majority of Vaishnava movements. Even Buddhists don’t consider Buddha as an incarnation of
Lord Vishnu.
Some places have a public holiday one week later, on the fifteenth day of the fourth month in
the Chinese Lunar Calendar, to coincide with the full moon. The names for this festival vary with
each country, for instance Visakha Puja in Thailand or Le Phat dan in Vietnam. In some
countries it is a public holiday.