Buddhists to celebrate Prabarana Purnima tomorrow  | News

DHAKA, Sept 05, 2025 (BSS) - The Buddhists will celebrate their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima in the capital as elsewhere in the country tomorrow with due solemnity and traditional enthusiasm.The festival is also known as Ashwini Purnima that marks conclusion of the three-month-long seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self edification and atonement of their defilement.The Purnima follows a month-long preaching of sermons by the Buddhist monks for the welfare of every beings and the whole humankind through a month-long yellow robes offering ceremony that begins on the day after the Purnima.According to the legend, Buddha once clipped some strands of hair from his head and said that if he was qualified to attain supreme wisdom...