Buddists across the country are set to celebrate Prabarana Purnima, their second largest religious festival, on Friday with due tradition and solemnities.
The festival is followed by three-month-long seclusion of Buddhist monks for self-edification and atonement of any defilement within.
Prabarana Purnima is followed by a month-long religious sermon across Viharas wishing for global peace and welfare of every human beings.
Purnima is heralded by an early morning religious prayer. In the afternoon, Buddhists visit the Viharas and offer prayers with candles and seek blessing of Buddha.
In the evening, paper lanterns are floated in the air marking a legend that Buddha once threw strands of his hair upwards believing it will not fall down if he was eligible to attain supreme wisdom and enlightenment.
