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	ese are the holy days that Chinese Buddhists celebrate by vis- iting temples to make offerings of prayers, incense, fruits, flow- ers and donations. On such days they observe the moral precepts very strictly as well as a full day's vegetarian diet, a practice original y from China. e dates given are based on the Chinese Lunar system so that 1.1 means the `First day of the First lunar moon' and so on. DATES FESTIVALS 8.12 -- Buddha Sakyamuni's Enlightenment Day. 30.12 -- Avatamsaka Bodhisat va's Birthday. 1.1 -- Maitreya Buddha's Birthday. 9.1 -- Sakra Devaraja's Birthday 8.2 -- Sakyamuni's Renunciation Day 15.2 -- Sakyamuni Buddha's Mahapari-Nirvana Day 19.2 -- Birthday of Kuan Shih Yin P'usa. 21.2 -- Birthday of Pu Hsien P'usa 16.3 -- Birthday of Cundi P'usa 23.3 -- Birthday of Marichi Devata 4.4 -- Birthday of Wen-shu P'usa 8.4 -- Birthday of Buddha Sakyamuni 15.4 -- Wesak Day 28.4 -- Birthday of Yao-Wang P'usa (Bhaisajyaraja Bodhisat va) 3.6 -- Birthday of Wei-to 10.6 -- Birthday of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) 19.6 -- Enlightenment Day of Kuan Shih Yin P'usa 13.7 -- Birthday of Ta-Shih-Chi P'usa 15.7 -- Yu-lan-pen (Ul ambana) Ceremony, for feeding hungry ghosts. 30.7 -- Birthday of Ti-tsang P'usa 22.8 -- Birthday of the ancient Buddha Jan-teng (Dipankara Buddha) 19.9 -- Kuan Shih Yin P'usa's Renunciation Day, the day that marks her entering into the nunnery. 30.9 -- Birthday of Yao-shi Fwo (Bhaisajyaguru Buddha) 5.10 -- Anniversary of the death of Ta-mo (Bodhidharma) 17.11 -- Birthday of O-mi-to Fwo (Amitabha Buddha) ¡ûBACK¡û |INDEX| ¡úNEXT¡ú