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Hanamatsuri Service (Buddha’s Birthday)

April 28, 2019

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Hanamatsuri, literally flower festival, commemorates the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, who became enlightened and is known as Buddha. A special altar—the Hanamido—is erected and decorated with flowers representing the garden in Lumbini, southern Nepal, where it is said that Queen Maya went into labor. A statue of the infant Buddha is placed in a pan and, in a ritual known as kanbutsu, water or sweet tea is poured over it in remembrance of the “sweet rain” that descended from heaven at the moment of the birth.

When:

10:30 a.m.

Where:

Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry St.

City:

Spokane

Neighborhood:

East Central neighborhood, South Hill

Cost:

Free, donations accepted

Phone:

(509) 270-5308

Email:

SpokaneBuddhistTemple@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.SpokaneBuddhistTemple.org

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