Showing posts with label Wesak lighting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wesak lighting. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Wesak lighting at the 'Manikkawaththe Pansala', Avissawella, Sri Lanka.




Wesak is a day celebrated as the day of Birth, Enlightenment and demise - Parinibbana - of Lord Buddha, in present Sri Lanka. This is a festival of lights where coconut oil lamps, candle lit paper lanterns of a few decades ago is replaced by electric lights now. The above pictures depict a 'Pansala'- Buddhist temple - illumined by lights on a Wesak week.