Thadingyut Festival...

Thadingyut festival, also known as lighting festival is held on the last day of Buddhist Lent which celebrates the returning of the Buddha from the heaven. This is the most liveliest and popular festival in Myanmar. Traditional performances, market fair and many more interesting activities will take place in this 3 day festival.

Thadingyut festival is just around the corner. Thadingyut is the seventh month of the Myanmar calander and the end of the Buddhist Lent. There is a well-known fact as Myanmar people have a penchant for festivals, Myanmar have festivals all around the year, at least one in each month of the year. Myanmar is rich in culture and has developed its own distinc- tive culture. Buddhism has great influence on the daily lives of Myanmar people and the celebration of light festival of Myanmar, the Thadingyut, happen at the end of the Buddhist lent.

Thitin or thadin means Sila, a religious duty and kyut or gyut, to be freed or exonerated. For the whole three rainy month, beginning from the Full Moon day of Waso '(June), the monks have been observ- ing the lent by staying where they happened to be on the commencement of the lent.

Thadingyut festival is related to the descent of Buddha from heaven after he preached the Abidhama (the most difficult of Bud- dhist teaching) to his mother reborn in heaven for three lenten months. Just as a signature of welcoming back,

Buddhist peo- ple all over the country, light candles when Lord Buddha and his disciples descended from heaven. Buddhists celebrate Thadin- gyut to welcome the Buddha and his disciples by enlightening and festooning the streets, houses and public buildings with colored electric bulbs or candles, which rep- resent those three stairways. At the pagodas the royalty rubbed shoulders with the peo- ple in their offering of lights. Men of means would make “a thousand lights offering” not of paraffin candles, but of earthen cups filled with oil and ginned cotton wicks. Most of the people use electric lights to illuminate.

The Thadingyut, the Lighting Festival of Myanmar, is the second most popular fes- tival in Myanmar after Thingyan Festival (New Year Water Festival).
There are three days of celebrating it as a custom, namely the day before full moon, the full moon day and the day after.

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