Buddha Purnima 2015: Why is it Celebrated? Wishes to Send to Your Loved Ones [PHOTOS]

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Buddha Purnima is also known as Vesak or Vesakha. This auspicious day commemorates the birth, nirvana (enlightenment), and the death of Gautama Buddha.

It falls on the full moon of the fourth lunar month (month of Vaisakh), i.e. April or May.

The sacred festival of Buddhists is observed as a holiday in many countries, including India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Though Buddhism originated in India, it was eventually adopted by many foreign cultures, and hence Vesakha is celebrated in many different ways all over the world.

In India, Vaishakh Purnima is also known as Buddha Jayanti - which has been traditionally accepted as Buddha's birth day.

As India celebrates the festival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also wished the citizens via social media.

Greetings to everyone on the auspicious occasion of Buddha Purnima. pic.twitter.com/REuCfGbs4Y

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 4, 2015

On this auspicious day, send the following greetings to your family and friends:

• "Buddham Saranam Gachaami"
  On this pious occasion of Buddha's birthday, may you reiterate to surrender yourself to Lord Buddha!
  Happy Buddha Jayanti!

• Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
  ~ Lord Gautama Buddha
  May you be blessed by Buddha on His birth anniversary!

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Lord Buddha
  Have a very happy Buddha Purnima!

• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
  Gautama Buddha
  May Lord Buddha bless you with health, contentment and faithfulness!
  Happy Buddha Purnima!

• Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
  ~ Gautama Buddha
  Happy Buddha Purnima!

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. ~ Gautama Buddha
  Have a blessed Buddha Purnima!

• Om Mani Padme Hum!
  May Lord Buddha enlighten your path of life with love, peace and truth!
  Happy Buddha Purnima!

• Rely on the teachings, not on the person
  Rely on the meaning, not on the words
  Rely on the real life, not on the dreams
  Rely on the wisdom, not on the mind inside
  Happy Buddha Jayanti!

• You may gather knowledge
  and money and prestige and power,
  but if have missed love
  then you have missed the real door.
  "Happy Buddha Purnima 2015"

• May the full moon of Buddha Purnima
  away the darkness of ignorance, bigotry and hatred
  and herald an era of contentment
  peace and enlightenment for the world!
  Heartiest Greetings on this day
  Happy Buddha Jayanti!!

Check out the above slideshow of Buddha Purnima's picture greetings.