Buddha Purnima 2017 in India: Date, significance and celebration of Gautama Buddha’s birth anniversary
India.com, May 8, 2017
Here is all you should know about Buddha Purnima 2017 date, significance and celebration in India.
New Delhi, India -- Buddha Purnima 2017 is just round the corner. India, being the land of the origin of Buddhism, holds Buddha Purnima as an extremely significant day.

According to most historians, Buddha’s lived between 563-483 B.C. Lumbini in Nepal is considered as his birth place and he is believed to have died at the age of 80 in Kushinagar.
Monks give talks and recite ancient verses on the day of Buddha Purnima with a large nuber of Buddhists in attendance. Buddha statues are placed in a basin filled with water and decorated with flowers.
Visitors to the temple pour water over the statue to pay their respects. The act is also said to symbolize a pure and new beginning. Buddha Purnima is also a day when Buddhists reflect upon the teachings of Gautama Buddha.
They may wear white robes and only eat vegetarian food on and around the day of Vesak. Several devotees offer money, food and clothes to the poor. Some buy caged animals and birds and set them free to display care for all living creatures as per one of the most prominent teachings of Buddha.