Probarona Purnima celebrated in Ctg  | Others

CHATTOGRAM, Oct 6, 2025 (BSS) - Probarona Purnima, the second-largest festival of the Buddhists, is being celebrated in the port city and its adjacent upazillas of the district today with traditional enthusiasm and solemnity. This festival, also known as Ashvini Purnima, marks the conclusion of the three-month-long seclusion of monks inside their monasteries for self-edification and atonement of their defilement. The Purnima festival follows a month-long series of sermons by Buddhist monks aimed at promoting the welfare of all beings. The festivities begin with a ceremony where yellow robes are offered. Legend has it that Buddha once clipped some hair from his head and predicted that if he were to attain supreme wisdom, the hair would not fall but rise...