Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

01/03/09

Laba Festival - Porridge for Buddha

Filed under: A Good Day — timwang @ 10:28:59 pm

Today is a Chinese festival that even many Chinese people are no longer familiar with: the Laba Festival. The Legend says over two thousands years ago, Sakyamuni (565 B. C.- 486 B. C. ), the founder of Buddhism, becomes Buddha on the 8th of the 12th lunar month, thanks to a bowl of porridge. This is why many temples in China has offered free porridge to the public. It seems Shaolin Temple's porridge stand attracted the most amount of people.

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