Event / Festival Name - Buddh Purnima/Buddha Jayanti / बुद्ध पुर्णिमा / बुद्ध जयंती Celebration date - May 25 Saturday, 2013 Event ruled by - Lord Buddha Holiday Type - Annual holiday Birth - c. 563 BCE or 623 BCE Lumbini, today in Nepal Died - c. 483 BCE or 543 BCE (aged 80) Kushinagar, today in India Attainment of supreme wisdom - 588 BC Attainment of Nirvana - Entire annihilation of his self at the age of 80 Also known as - Buddha's Birthday or Buddha Day Observed by - All Buddhist sects Type - Buddhist Ethnicity - Shakya Known for - Founder of Buddhism Significance - The birth, elucidation and passing away of Buddha Activities / Observances - Buddha Purnima / Buddha Jayanti (Buddha Birthday) is celebrated in tribute or remembrance of Lord Buddha. On this auspicious day people take the continuous recitation and also bathing the Buddha’s sculpture, There to be also held a group meditation, demonstration, adulation at the front of statue of Lord Buddha, partaking of vegetarian food, giving to charity to helpless and needy people these are some activities involved on eve of Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti. From Buddhist calendar, it falls on the full moon Uposatha day may be typically the 5th or 6th lunar month and it actually swathe the birth, enlightenment (nirvāna), and passing away (Parinirvāna) of Lord Gautama Buddha. In 2011 Buddha Purnima, It falls on 17 May 2011. This auspicious day assume to be thrice time blessed day as the lord Buddha is ninth incarnation of lord Vishnu who is considered as the creator, preserver and also to be destroyer.