CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Lumbini Festival This festival takes place in Nagarjunasagar in the state of Andhra Pradesh every year. It is a 3-day long festival. Also, people celebrate the heritage of Buddhism these days. So, they named it after the birthplace of Lord Buddha.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bihar is considered the Birthplace of Buddhism.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sangken festival is celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Assam, India, as the traditional New Year’s Day from 14 to 16 April by the Theravada Buddhist Communities. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars.

Detailed explanation-4: -Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative inscribed Ashoka pillars there. The inscription on the pillar is the oldest in Nepal.