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May 12, 2025 at 09:41 AM
✅ 12th May 2025
🪷 Buddha Purnima 2025 🪷
📍 Significance: Birth, Enlightenment & Parinirvana of Gautama Buddha
✍️ Celebrated on the Full Moon day (Purnima) in the month of Vaisakha
🟢 RELATION
▪️Father: Śuddhodana – King of the Shakya clan.
▪️Mother: Maya Devi – Died 7 days after his birth.
▪️Foster Mother: Mahaprajapati Gautami – Raised Buddha after Maya Devi’s death.
▪️Wife: Yashodhara – Married at age 16.
▪️Son: Rahula
🟢Quick Facts from PYQs
▪️Buddha was born in Lumbini (Nepal)
▪️Obtained his Enlightenment in Bodh Gaya
▪️Gave his first sermon in Sarnath, and died (Mahaparinirvana) in Kushinagar (UP)
▪️Sarnath is the place where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma then Buddhist Sangha has originated.
▪️Gautam Budhha is the founder of the world religion of Buddhism.
UN Recognition: Celebrated as "Vesak" by the United Nations
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