page_title: Buddha's Birthday
section_title: South and Southeast Asia and Mongolia
hierarchical_section_title: Buddha's Birthday / Date / South and Southeast Asia and Mongolia
caption_attribution_description: English: Buddha's statue located near Belum Caves, Andhra Pradesh, India. Azərbaycanca: Buddanın heykəli, Belum kahaların yaxınlığında, Andhra Pradesh, İndiya Esperanto: Satuo de Budho proksime al la kavoj Belum, Andhra Pradesh, bharatio Español: Estatua de Buddha, cerca de las cuevas Belum, Andhra Pradesh, India
context_page_description: Buddha's Birthday is a Buddhist festival that is celebrated in most of East Asia commemorating the birth of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Gautama Buddha, who was the founder of Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition and modern academic consensus, Gautama Buddha was born c. 563–483 BCE in Lumbini and raised in the Shakya capital of Kapilavastu.
  The exact date of Buddha's birthday is based on the Asian lunisolar calendars. The date for the celebration of Buddha's birthday varies from year to year in the Western Gregorian calendar, but usually falls in April or May. In leap years it may be celebrated in June.
  In South and Southeast Asia, the Buddha's birth is celebrated as part of Vesak, a festival that also celebrates the Buddha's enlightenment and death. In East Asia, the awakening and death of the Buddha are observed as separate holidays.
context_section_description: In South Asian and Southeast Asian countries as well as Mongolia, Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the full moon day of the Vaisakha month of the Buddhist calendar and the Hindu calendar, which usually falls in April or May of the Western Gregorian calendar. The festival is known as Buddha Purnima, as Purnima means full moon day in Sanskrit. It is also called Buddha Jayanti, with Jayanti meaning birthday in Sanskrit.
  The corresponding Western Gregorian calendar dates varies from year to year:
  2017: May 10
  2018: April 29 (Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Bangladesh), April 30 (Nepal and India), May 29 (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia)
  2019: May 19
  2020: May 7
caption: Buddha's statue located near Belum Caves, Andhra Pradesh, India
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