{"id":7994,"date":"2024-07-02T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/buddhists-celebrate-wesak-day-today\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T19:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:08:30","slug":"buddhists-celebrate-wesak-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/buddhists-celebrate-wesak-day-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhists celebrate Wesak Day today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-body\">\n                <!-- Content data --><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Buddhists in Malaysia on Wednesday (May 22) observe Wesak Day, honouring the birth, enlightenment and passing of the religion&#8217;s founder, Siddharta Gautama, with the Maha Vihara Buddhist Temple in Brickfields serving as a central hub for celebrations in the federal capital.<\/p>\n<p>As is customary, Wesak Day, a public holiday in Malaysia, saw devotees congregating at Buddhist temples, chanting religious hymns and carrying symbolic Buddhist icons in a procession symbolising purity.<\/p>\n<p>At the Maha Vihara Buddha Temple, approximately 20 decorated car&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2024\/05\/22\/buddhists-celebrate-wesak-day-today\">Tautan sumber <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Buddhists in Malaysia on Wednesday (May 22) observe Wesak Day, honouring the birth, enlightenment and passing of the religion&#8217;s founder, Siddharta Gautama, with the Maha Vihara Buddhist Temple in Brickfields serving as a central hub for celebrations in the federal capital. As is customary, Wesak Day, a public holiday in Malaysia, saw devotees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012,461],"tags":[6115,6113,6114,6112,6111],"class_list":{"0":"post-7994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national-stock-exchange-nse-id","7":"category-national-stock-exchange-nse","8":"tag-fo-guang-shan-dong-zen","9":"tag-k-sarawathy","10":"tag-maha-vihara-buddha-temple","11":"tag-unity","12":"tag-wesak-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econoasia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}