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Vesak
Hundreds of millions of people, throughout the world, celebrate the festival we know in Sinhala as Vesak (or Visakat Tirunal, in Tamil). Uniquely, it commemorates not just the birth, but also the enlightenment and the demise of Siddhartha Gautama, the Sakyamuni Buddha; the equivalent of combining Christmas and Easter for Christians, or the holy Prophet’s birthday, Hajj...
