The colour calendar
147 days of the year that have colours of their own: festivals, national days, remembrances and causes, with what is worn and shown on each. Dates are worked out afresh every day.
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13 May 2027Buddha's Birthday in Korea (Yeondeunghoe)Thousands of paper lotus lanterns in pink, yellow, green and blue hung over temple yards and carried through Seoul.
20 May 2027VesakPaper lanterns and the six colours of the Buddhist flag: blue, yellow, red, white and orange, and all five together.
20 May 2027Buddha PurnimaWhite clothes, white kheer, butter lamps and prayer flags at Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Lumbini.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Losar: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tsagaan Sar: User:Chinneeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Songkran: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY 3.0, source
- Thingyan: Pagan era painter(s), Public domain, source
- Vesak: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Buddha Purnima: User: (WT-shared) Manoj nav at wts wikivoyage, Public domain, source
- Yeondeunghoe: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han), CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Obon: Batholith, Public domain, source
- Loy Krathong: John Shedrick, CC BY 2.0, source