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Vesak (Pali:
Vesakha, Sanskrit: Vaisakha), known as Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day is observed by Buddhist communities in and beyond India as the day of the Birth, Enlightenment and
Parinirvana of Gautama Buddha.
Mongolians also plan to celebrate Buddha Day today (26) which has been declared a public holiday.
In the seventh century Xuanzang, a Chinese traveller, who was a Buddhist monk and a scholar recorded that while traversing the Gobi Desert on the way to reach the Silk Road, he saw Buddhist temples in the territory of Mongols, where monks were doing
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th and 14
th centuries. The Goryeo dynasty was established following the unification of Korea’s Later Three Kingdoms and ended when it was overthrown by the Joseon dynasty. The history of the Goryeo dynasty is closely intertwined with events that took place in neighboring China. This is visible in the way Goryeo was treated each time a new dynasty came to power.
Apart from that, the Goryeo dynasty is considered to be the “golden age of Buddhism in Korea,” as Buddhism was the kingdom’s national religion. The
Tripitaka Koreana , a collection of Buddhist scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks, is one of the most significant achievements of Korean Buddhism during this period.