People who serve in the temple are called monks, and they wear plain orange clothes. Vesak is usually celebrated by going to the temple with your friends and family, and offering the monks tasty ...

At least for some lay devotees too, Vesak Poya is a hectic day. In each temple a group of devotees would see to the arrangements to make the vast numbers coming to observe 'sil' as comfortable as ...

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