Reduced funds, a lack of sponsors and competition from organised groups mean there will be fewer Vesak pandals and lanterns in Colombo city and its suburbs with small-scale craftsmen driven out to ...

Overseas Realty Ceylon PLC, the owner manager and developer of the World Trade Center Colombo (WTC), is displaying a giant Vesak lantern at its premises to celebrate this year’s Vesak festival. As UN ...

Indonesian Buddhists released thousands of sky lanterns in celebration of Vesak, the day of the full moon in the month of May. Vesak is one of the most sacred days to millions of Buddhists around the ...

Lanterns are an integral part of the Vesak Poya festival (Full Moon in May), which is celebrated to mark three important events in the life of Buddha — birth, enlightenment and death. This time, in ...

The Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal has been decorated with lanterns to celebrate Vesak, marking the birth and enlightenment of the Buddha. Quan Am Monastery on Truong Sa Street of Phu Nhuan District has ...

Areas displaying pandals, vesak lantern exhibitions and large scale dansals particularly in Colombo District, would be considered high security zones during the Vesak season, with army, police and ...