PAGODAS in Yangon such as the Shwedagon, the Sule, the Botahtaung and the Shwe Phone Pwint were packed with pilgrims celebrating the Buddha Pujaniya Festival on the Full Moon of Tabaung yesterday.
Thousands of devotees thronged the Shwedagon Pagoda to celebrate the Buddha Pujaniya Tabaung Festival of the pagoda yesterday morning.
At the merit-sharing ceremony of the Tabaung festival, Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein and wife, members of the pagoda’s board of trustees, religious associations and donors took nine precepts from the State Ovadacariya Shwedagon Pagoda Ovadacariya Kyaikpi Sayadaw Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhamajotika Agga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta Gunaysana and donated offertories to members of Sangha.
A water libation ceremony for the donations made was then conducted in the presence of the member of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and the Shwedagon Pagoda Ovadacariya Agga Maha Ganthdavacaka Pandita Agga Maha Saddhammajotikadhaja Dwi Pitakadhara Pali Paragu Bhaddanta Nagita.
Then Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein and wife, members of the pagoda’s board of trustees and donors offered a day meal to the Sayadaws at the Yaung Taw Pwint Pavilion (Tazaung) of the Shwedagon pagoda. Likewise, many famous paBuddha Pujaniya Tabaung Festival celebrated at pagodas around Yangon godas in Yangon and other places were crowded with devotees and pilgrims on the Full Moon of Tabaung, it was learnt. — Ko Ko Zaw (Translated by Win Ko Ko Aung)
