White Lotus Day, World Meditation Day and Wesak


Happenings in May


White Lotus Day celebrates the ‘founding mother of occult in America,’ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky


https://theconversation.com/white-lotus-day-celebrates-the-founding-mother-of-occult-in-america-helena-petrovna-blavatsky-197342


Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891.


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World Meditation Day: Date, history, significance and all you need to know


https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/festivals/world-meditation-day-2023-date-history-significance-and-all-you-need-to-know-101684572026597.html


World Meditation Day is celebrated to promote the practice of meditation for inner peace and well-being. Here is everything you need to know about this day.


World Meditation Day, observed annually on May 21, serves as a global platform to promote and highlight the practice of meditation and its immense benefits in our fast-paced and bustling world.


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Wesak Day / Vesak Day 2024

23. May 2024


https://www.twinkl.com/event/wesak-day-vesak-day-2024


Wesak/Vesak Day 

Vesak, also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists and some Hindus in South and Southeast Asia as well as Tibet and Mongolia.


Vesak is one of the most important festivals in the Buddhist calendar. It is also known as Wesak Day or “Buddha’s Birthday”.


Vesak is the celebration of the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Gautama Buddha’s real name was Siddhārtha Gautama, but Buddha is a title that means 'the enlightened' or 'awakened one'. So after he found enlightenment, Siddhārtha Gautama was called, Gautama Buddha.


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