🪷 बुद्ध पूर्णिमा · Buddha Pūrṇimā

Also known as: Vesak, Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā, Vesakha

📅 When is Buddha Pūrṇimā?

YearDateDay
20252025-05-12Monday
2026 (this year)2026-05-01Friday
20272027-05-20Thursday
Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and mahāparinirvāṇa all on this Vaiśākha Pūrṇimā. Most sacred Buddhist + Vaishnava day.
Associated deity: Buddha (21st avatāra of Krishna per Bhāgavata 1.3.24)

Tradition

Tradition: Pan-Hindu

Avatāra index: #21 of 22 (per Bhāgavata 1.3)

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

Primary observance: Day-long observance of compassion (karuṇā) and ahiṁsā; Buddha-stuti at sunset

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 15,
  "tithi_paksha": "Śukla",
  "lunar_month": "Vaiśākha"
}

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Sources

Precedence: 1 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output

Sources and Connected Observances

Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.

Buddha Pūrṇimālocal festival mūrti-page · Pan-Hindu/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceBuddha Pūrṇimā computed on Monday, 2025-05-122026 occurrenceBuddha Pūrṇimā computed on Friday, 2026-05-012027 occurrenceBuddha Pūrṇimā computed on Thursday, 2027-05-20buddha chartrelated janma-kuṇḍalī or historical chart routeŚB 1.3.24local Bhāgavata route mirrored from festival source text: Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.3.24BG 10.35Krishna as Mārgaśīrṣa among months and kusumākara among seasonsBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckoners/jyotisha-referencetithi, nakshatra, vāra, and pañchāṅga element source layer/cosmic-timekalpa, manvantara, yuga, and annual-cycle time context/lagna-tithi-lokaMātṛ-Vidyā source layer for tithi, loka, and reader-local kṣetra/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundationtextual witnessesBhāgavata Purāṇa 1.3.24 · Pāli Tipiṭaka · Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa