The Buddhist community yesterday celebrated their second largest festival, Prabarana Purnima, in the city as elsewhere across the country in a befitting manner and with due solemnity, reports BSS. The festival is also known as Ashvini Purnima that marks conclusion of the three-month-long seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self edification and atonement of their defilement.

The Purnima follows a month-long preaching of sermons by the Buddhist monks for the welfare of all beings and the whole humankind through a month-long yellow robe offering ceremony that begins the day after the Purnima.

According to the legend, Buddha once clipped some strands of hair from his head and said that if he were qualified to attain supreme wisdom and enlightenment, the hairs would not fall down but go up instead, in the long run which they did.