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Magha Puja 2013 - the Golden Age

            5 pics from today with different moods, colors, and lights. This year, the Magha Puja happens on February 25 as it's the 3rd full moon of the year. I was here last year and today I came back again to photograph exactly where I stood a year ago with different equipments & a year more experience. I hope you enjoy the pictures. It's one of the most beautiful sights and a haven for me, a photographer, to find my peace.

Māgha Pūjā day marks the four auspicious occasions, which happened nine months after the Enlightenment of the Buddha at Veḷuvana Bamboo Grove, near Rājagaha in Northern India. On that occasion, as recorded in the commentary to the Mahāsamayasutta, DN-Comm 20) four marvellous events occurred:

There were 1,250 Arahata, that came to see the Buddha that evening without any schedule.
All of them were Arhantas, the Enlightened One, and all of them were ordained by the Buddha himself.
The Buddha gave those Arhantas principles of the Buddhism, called "The ovadhapatimokha". Those principles are: - To cease from all evil,- To do what is good,- To cleanse one's mind;
it was the full-moon day.

The Buddha gave an important teaching to the assembled monks on that day 2,500 years ago called the 'Ovādapātimokha'[1] which laid down the principles of the Buddhist teachings. In Thailand, this teaching has been dubbed the 'Heart of Buddhism'.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magha_Puja

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Dhammakaya Temple, Pathum Thani, Thailand

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Taken on: February 25, 2013

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ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
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Exposure Program:	Manual
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