Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated in the country on Wednesday.
Buddha Purnima marks the birth, attainment of enlightenment and death of Gautam Buddha. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama in Kapilbastu in the foothills of the Himalayas.
He attained supreme enlightenment at the age of 35 and ultimately attained “Nirvana” in 483 BCE at the age of 80.
This day is a public holiday in Bangladesh.