dawn_1o9 from Myanmar posts pictures during Full Moon Day of Pyar Tho. Full Moon Days are Sabbath Days when people go to monastery and pagodas. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

People visit the Botahtaung Pagoda during celebrations of the full moon day of Warso in Yangon, Myanmar, July 20, 2024. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua) People riding motorbikes wade through a ...

Kason(May), the second month in the Myanmar calendar, is deemed the hottest month of the hot season. Yet it is the most significant day in the Buddhist world. The full moon day of Kason is deeply ...

YANGON, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's State Administration ... to mark the Dhammacakka Day, a significant Buddhist occasion that falls on the full moon of the second Waso lunar month of the Myanmar ...

In predawn darkness in western Myanmar, thousands of devotees scramble to the top of a mountain said to be home to a spirit guarding 500 mythical ducks to mark the Tazaungdaing festival of lights. The ...

The full moon that marks the end of the rainy season is celebrated across Buddhist-majority Myanmar in explosions ... Climbers should not eat duck the day before or after they visit the mountain ...