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A devotee lights oil lamps during celebrations of the full moon day of Thadingyut, or lighting festival, to mark the end of Buddhist Lent in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023
Thai police said passengers inside the bus were on their way to a temple to mark the end of Buddhist Lent.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2020
“We are now celebrating the Buddhist Lent period,” read a note accompanying a pair of earplugs on my nightstand.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
The occasion: Purima Pansa, the three-months-long Buddhist Lent that gives many of the devout a chance to live in a monastery and become temporary priests.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is called Vihâra, the principal festival is in the Buddhist Lent and caste is not observed within its precincts.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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