This desire was made by the "Sambuddha Jayanthi" Working Committee headed by the Sri Lankan Supreme High priest D.M. Jayaratne being they met at the PM's turn-off [on June 17, 2010]. The 2600th diamond jubilee force on the full moon day in May [Vesak Day, May 17, 2011].
At the assignation the Supreme High priest alleged this bright star motion help to merge a new start in Buddhism and its philosophy here the world.
In line with the diamond jubilee, the Orb Buddhist Meeting motion be defensible in Sri Lanka with the voice of congregation from all countries where Buddhism prevails. The community has made numerous proposals for the raise of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, proposals which were handed better to the Supreme High priest for key proceedings.
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THE BUDDHA'S 2,600TH BIRTHDAY?
Acuity QUARTERLY (Shiny finish)
Acuity Quarterly Math Committee with Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D., Abbot, Bodhi Vihara, Hope Water's edge, CA (Bangladeshi-Indian Theravada tradition)
This is the rendezvous 2554 BE (Buddhist Era) according to the Buddhist Calendar. The Buddha was "natural" at the age of 35 on the day of his thorough description ("maha bodhi, "thorough in the same way as he became a matchlessly cultured teaching "buddha" quite than sincerely an cultured revel). Before to that, he was not yet the Buddha but sincerely the Shakyan Prince Siddhartha Gautama.
The Buddhist Era in Sri Lanka begins from the full moon day of the thorough description. Vesak Day (the full moon day of the Indian month of "Vesakha") celebrates not definite the thorough description but the initiate of Siddhartha (and usually in Asia children are natural at the age of 1 in the same way as ancestors previous nine months in the womb, or ten months according to the lunar calendar, are counted now one's age) and the thorough crucial fantasy, at the age of 80.
All three comings and goings, according to the Buddha in convinced sutra references, occurred on the full moon day of the identical month, at lowest according to the oldest existing Buddhist school (Theravada). Newer schools of something else at your house traditions methodically story their own dates and show your appreciation these comings and goings in isolation.
The tradition in Thailand, which is Theravada, begins its Buddhist Era from the rendezvous of the crucial death ("maha-pari-nirvana"). And that precise incite differs from the dreary Theravada muscle Sri Lanka, as well as Burma, even though the three falter on utmost other bring to an end.
It is according to Sri Lankan calculations -- as reported by the Buddhist scholar, dean, author, and head Sri Lankan ambassador to the US Ananda Guruge at the Southern California Sangha Legislative body -- that the Buddha (or at lowest Siddhartha who became the Buddha) is gyratory 2,600 in 2011.
Why? It is in the same way as this is 2554 BE (and motion be 2555 BE on Vesak Day in May 2011), plus 80 years (how desire Siddhartha lived), not as much of 35 (Siddhartha's age being he became the Buddha) = 2,600.
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