Full Moon Day Thadingyut: Performing good deeds and enjoying holidays

Being a significant day for Buddhist devotees, the pagodas and temples across Myanmar has seen crowd of pilgrims, taking Sabbath, reciting Parittas, paying obeisance to the elder persons, performing good deeds and releasing birds and fingerlings on the Full Moon Day Thadingyut or Abhidhamma Day.

In the morning, pilgrims were crowded at the Maravijaya Buddha Image, the World tallest marble curving Buddha Image and Uppatasandhi Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area. Likewise, Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon Region and Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image in Mandalay Region were crowded with pilgrims, offering oil lamps and paying homage.

In addition, people keep on preserving the tradition of paying obeisance to the elder persons, rendering health care services, offering nutrition and charity feast while entertaining cultural performances. Moreover, the expressways and highways have seen crowded commuters, taking their holiday trips.

The recreation areas and public parks were also teemed with visitors, taking relaxation, enjoying the colourful illuminating of lights and releasing hot-air balloons.