Buddhists bring 140 Buddha statues to celebrate Samyak Mahadan festival in Nepal

Mar 15, 2024

Lalitpur (Nepal), March 15 (ANI): Buddhists brought 140 statues of the Buddha from several viharas for the Samyak Mahadan festival held at the courtyard of Nagbaha, near Patan Durbar Square in Kathmandu Valley. This festival is celebrated once in every five years. Devotees formed a serpentine line to make offerings to these Buddha idols at the Samyak Mahadan festival. The Samyak Mahadan is marked every year at Bhaktapur, once every half-decade at Lalitpur and once every 12 years in Kathmandu, where a total of 126 Buddhas are brought to a single place. The two-day festival which started from Wednesday evening seeing over pouring flow of people from various walks of life offer-in grains, money and cereals to the "Aaju"- revered people of the society. It's been already more than 7 centuries that this festival has been celebrated in Lalipur as it started from Nepal Sambat 135 or 1015 AD, the Licchivi Period in Nepal's ancient history.