Article: Signifies Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment and demise

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The Sunday Observer
Article date:
May 3, 2009
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Colombo, May 3 -- Of all poyas, Vesak has the utmost significance, since it celebrates the three major events in the Buddha's life: Birth, attaining the Buddhahood and Great Demise.

The Buddha's journey starts with the young ascetic Sumedha's determination to achieve the supremest spiritual status. Dipankara Buddha could well fathom the weight of the youth's determination and solemnly prophesied that Sumedha would be his twenty-fourth successor in eons to come. And thus the Vesak was born.

As any Bodhisatva, a Buddha aspirant, Sumedha had also been re-born in many existences fulfilling 30 perfections. And before his final birth, the Bodhisatva, or Buddha aspirant, was born in Thusitha ...

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