Saturday, May 06, 2006

Budha's Birthday

May 5th was Budha's birthday. Many Budhists and non budhist visit temples for this celebration. I visited Bomosa temple with some friends to check out what it was all about.

The paper lanterns are for whishes people make. They write their names on their wish on the piece of paper. Then, at dawn they light a candle and put it inside.


There were many small temple houses around the grounds, all with people inside chanting and praying.

There were also hundreds of people around the temples praying. The atmosphere was extremely calm even though the place was overcrowded.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow.. its looks amazing... i get that your having fun down there.. hope you miss us crazy people here.
Take care