🪷 बुद्ध पूर्णिमा · Buddha Pūrṇimā

Also known as: Vesak, Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā, Vesakha

Buddha Pūrṇimā Source-Anchor Spine

This festival page exposes its own route, computed occurrence day-pages, historical day anchors where present, related chart/corpus routes where locally hosted, the festival hub, yearly calendar, pañchāṅga reference layer, and the Bindu/Philosophy foundations. Textual witnesses remain visible as citation-level witnesses until every cited Purāṇa or Itihāsa passage becomes a local route.

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, 2027-05-20historical day anchorBhagavān Buddha's birth at Lumbinī · Lumbinī, Nepalbuddha 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

📅 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"
}

Historical Anchor

Bhagavān Buddha's birth at Lumbinī (Lumbinī, Nepal)
View pañchāṅga on -0562-04-11 →

→ View buddha's natal chart

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