Festivals

• Festivals 


  Celebrations of important events.
• Buddhist Retreats: May involve meditation, talks, study groups, workshops and rituals, aims to help people deepen their understanding of Buddhist practice, held in monasteries or Buddhist centres.
• Parinirvana Day: A Mahayana festival that commemorates the Buddha's passing away.
• Parinirvana: The Buddha's passing into full nirvana (nibbana) at his death (parinibbana).
• Anicca 


  Impermanence.
• Kathina: A Buddhist alms-giving ceremony at which new robes and other requisites are offered to members of the sangha at the end of the 3-month rainy season retreat (vassa).
• Kushinagar: A place in India where it is believed the Buddha passed away.