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Vixakha Bouxa | | Vixakha Bouxa: Encyclopedia - Vixakha Bouxa | | The Vixakha Bouxa festival is the Lao version of the Visakha Puja. It commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. It is held around the months of May or Vesak. Celebrations include dances, poems, parades, processions, deep meditation, theatrical performances, and puppet shows.
Vixakha Bouxa - Boun Bang Fay.
One part of theVixakha Bouxa festival is called Boun Bang Fay, or the Festival of the Rockets. During this celebration, rockets are shot in to the sky in attempt ...
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Vixakha Bouxa
The Vixakha Bouxa festival is the Lao version of the Visakha Puja. It commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. It is held around the months of May or Vesak. Celebrations include dances, poems, parades, processions, deep meditation, theatrical performances, and puppet shows.
Vixakha Bouxa - Boun Bang Fay
One part of theVixakha Bouxa festival is called Boun Bang Fay, or the Festival of the Rockets. During this celebration, rockets are shot in to the sky in attempt to convince the Buddha to send rain. Traditionally, monks made the rockets out of hollow bamboo tubes filled with gunpowder (among other things). Today many people make the rockets more like fireworks and hold competitions for the highest, fastest, and most colorful rockets.it is fun
Categories: Laotian culture | Buddhist art and culture
Other related archivesBuddha, Buddhist art and culture, Lao, Laotian culture, May, Visakha Puja, birth, dances, death, deep meditation, enlightenment, fireworks, gunpowder, monks, parades, poems, processions, puppet shows, rain, rockets, theatrical performances
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