The Kingdom of Cambodia (pronounced /kæmˈboʊdiə/, formerly known as
Kampuchea (/kæmpuːˈtʃiːə/), transliterated: Preăh Réachéanachâkr
Kâmpŭchea) is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13
million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh.
Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist
Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the
eleventh and fourteenth centuries.
Invitation to Buddha Inauguration
🌺 You’re invited to participate in the Buddha Inauguration ceremony which will take place on the dates below:
🪷 Saturday Evening, June 3, 2023, the monks chanting Paritta and more rituals.
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Cambodia Celebrates Meak Bochea Day
PHNOM PENH: February 16, 2022 marks Meak Bochea Day, otherwise known as 'Magha Puja' or 'Sangha Day' in other parts of the world. This is an important Buddhist festival celebrated in Cambodia and by Buddhists all over the world on the full moon of the third month of the traditional Khmer calendar, to commemorate the day when the Buddha declared the founding of Buddhism in India in 588 BC, just nine months after his enlightenment.
The formation of Buddhism as a religious organization took place among 1,250 monks, all members of a convention that had brought together people from all walks of life. According to traditional Buddhist history, the monks had gathered on this full moon day because it coincided with the day of Shiva in Hinduism. The monks traveled from different locations to see Lord Buddha, with the story being that all 1,250 had arrived separately without a summoning.
Celebrating Meak Bochea Day means that Buddhists:
