Buddha's Birthday is celebrated in April ( here is pictured the Tian Tan Buddha in Hong Kong )

* Buddha's Birthday, also known as Hana Matsuri, " Flower Festival " ( Japan )

* May 2 – Buddha's Birthday

Sometimes informally called " Buddha's Birthday ", it actually encompasses the birth, enlightenment ( nirvāna ), and passing away ( Parinirvāna ) of Gautama Buddha.

The lunar calendar is used for the observation of traditional festivals, such as Seollal, Chuseok, and Buddha's Birthday.

Every year, on the second Sunday of May, Tzu Chi treats this as a 3-in-1 celebration day because on this day, Buddha's Birthday, Mother's Day and Tzu Chi day is being celebrated.

Usually on Buddha's Birthday, Buddhists bathe the Buddha but Tzu Chi believes that it is the people that needs cleansing to be able to be good individuals.

* Bathing Buddha Ceremony ( 浴佛法會 ): Celebration of the Buddha's Birthday held in and outside Hsi Lai, and is hosted by other temples in Southern California.

Pao Fa Temple is the host of many Buddhist activities, including celebration of the Buddha's Birthday, various offerings, and many other ceremonies including chanting and meditation.

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It coincides with the local celebration of Buddha's Birthday.

Buddha's Birthday, the birthday of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, is a holiday traditionally celebrated in Mahayana Buddhism.

Lotus Lantern Festival celebrating Buddha's Birthday, in South Korea

* The Folkloric Study of Chopail ( Buddha's Birthday ), written by Prof. M. Y. Pyeon.

In 1997 the SAR government designated one public holiday in May or June to mark Buddha's Birthday, which replaced the Queen's birthday.

Apart from the above traditional festivals, quite a number of important religious festivals, including Good Friday, Easter, Buddha's Birthday and Christmas, have been listed as public holidays.

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Rissho Kosei-kai observes various Buddhist holidays, including Nirvana Day, Buddha's Birthday and Bodhi Day.

* 1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2, 500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.

Nichiren ( 日蓮 ) ( 1222 – 1282 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who, having studied Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings and the commentaries of the leading Buddhist scholars, believed that the Lotus Sutra was the ultimate teaching of Shakyamuni and that it was the one true teaching.

* The Bodhi-Tree Meditation – a Buddhist practice based on the Buddha's night of liberation

#" Buddha's Remains " ( 2: 40 ) – Instrumental

The abbot then was Venerable K. Gunaratana Maha Nayaka Thera ( 1891 – 1964 ), a Sinhalese monk well known for his lucid and simple explanations of the Buddha's teachings.

Vaishali, which was the capital of one of the states in northern India during Buddha's lifetime, to Nalanda, which was the seat of a celebrated Buddhist monastic university in the 5th – 12th century.

Ama-cha is mainly used for kan-butsu-e ( the Buddha bathing ceremony ) on April 8 every year — the day thought to be Buddha's birthday in Japan.

Therefore Buddha's Birth is celebrated on April 8 or May 8 in most temples.

* Buddha's Enlightenment Day ( April 15 )

On 8 September 2008 archeologists searching for a legendary 300-metre statue at the site of the already dynamited Buddhas announced the discovery of an unknown 19-metre ( 62-foot ) reclining Buddha, a pose representing Buddha's passage into nirvana.

* 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist ( The Birthday Party ) ( b. 1959 )

Riccardo Gaudino, historian for the America500 Birthday Extravaganza Movement ( 2007 – 12 ) led the campaign for Who Named America?

* Hanfmann, George M. A., " The Scylla of Corvey and Her Ancestors " Dumbarton Oaks Papers 41 " Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday " ( 1987 ), pp. 249 – 260.

637 – 56 in “ I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times ” ( Ps 78: 2b ): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, A. M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji, eds.

* December 23 – Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.

* November 7 – Birthday of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel laureate, discoverer of Raman scattering.

* March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels ( in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service ), not to be confused with October 13, 1775 which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.

* R 2. 14 – Birthday Cantata for Prince Felice of Lucca

* Szabolcs de Vajay, " From Alfonso VIII to Alfonso X " in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, 1989, pp. 366 – 417.

* June ( no fixed date ) – The Queen's Official Birthday

* Mal Evans – background vocals and handclaps on " Dear Prudence ", handclaps on " Birthday ", trumpet on " Helter Skelter "

* Pattie Harrison – background vocals on " Birthday "

* Yoko Ono – background vocals, brief lead vocals and handclaps on " The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill ", backing vocals on " Birthday ", speech, tapes and sound effects on " Revolution 9 "

Pinter's first play was The Room – in which the main character, Rose, is menaced by Riley who invades her safe space though the actual source of menace remains a mystery – and this theme of characters in a safe space menaced by an outside force is repeated in many of his later works ( perhaps most famously in The Birthday Party ).

Studies in Greek and Byzantine Texts Presented to Jacques Noret for his Sixty-Fifth Birthday Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 137, Leuven – Paris – Dudley, MA, 2004, p. 11-43 ; and id., Le pouvoir de l ' anathème ou Maxime le Confesseur et les moines palestiniens du VIIe siècle, in A. Camplani-G. Filoramo, Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism.

* Szabolcs de Vajay, " From Alfonso VIII to Alfonso X " in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, 1989, pp. 366 – 417.

* King Cole's Birthday Party premieres ( 1947 – 1949 ).

* Beryl Bainbridge – The Birthday Boys

* 1984 – Donald Duck's 50th Birthday ( TV special )

* The 3rd Birthday ( 2010 ) – with Tsuyoshi Sekito and Mitsuto Suzuki