{"id":636,"date":"2020-02-12T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=636"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:53:02","slug":"15-february-parinirvana-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/02\/12\/15-february-parinirvana-day\/","title":{"rendered":"15 February Parinirvana Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parinirvana Day, or Nirvana Day is a Buddhist holiday which commemorates the death of Buddha and is celebrated on 15 February [it is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the fourth month of the Bhutanese calendar] (and by some on 8 February).\u00a0 This day \u2013 also known as Nirvana Day \u2013 is celebrated because it is believed that Buddha\u2019s death should be celebrated because at his death he had reached Enlightenment and had finally reached the stage of Nirvana. Many of the celebrations and festivals observed on this day mark the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.<\/p>\n

Passages from the\u00a0Nirvana Sutra\u00a0describing the Buddha’s last days of life are often read on Parinirvana Day. Other observances include meditation and pilgrimages to Buddhist temples\u00a0and monasteries, heading to
\ndifferent Buddhist shrines, also known as stupas. These include the Wat Thai Temple, the Ramabhar Stupa or the Nirvana Stupa.<\/p>\n

Some people reserve the day for intense meditation and for reading excerpts from the Parinibanna Sutta. It is an especially important time for Buddhists to reflect on the impermanence of life and upon their inevitable death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parinirvana Day, or Nirvana Day is a Buddhist holiday which commemorates the death of Buddha and is celebrated on 15 February [it is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the fourth month of the Bhutanese calendar] (and by some on 8 February).\u00a0 This day \u2013 also known as Nirvana Day \u2013 is celebrated because it … Continue reading “15 February Parinirvana Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}