Friends and families coming together to pray for their ancestors at Nirvana’s Enlightenment Ceremony. — Photos: ONG SOON HIN MORE than 10,000 friends and family members came together for prayers and ...

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Buddhists around the world celebrate the Buddha's attainment of the highest form of nirvana on Sunday, known as Nirvana Day. A statue of Buddha is pictured here in Singapore, May 15, 2010.

Morning had broken. The dawn the world and the heavens had for epochs waited to break upon the land, had finally come to pass. And on that Vesak full moon day over 2500 years ago, in the year 623BC, ...