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Parinirvana – Buddhism

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Allison Kestenbaum in No Comments
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February 8, 2018 – February 9, 2018 all-day
2018-02-08T05:00:00+00:00
2018-02-09T05:00:00+00:00
Buddhism

Some Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions mark this date as the anniversary of the historical Buddha’s death death in ca. 486 B.C.E. and his subsequent entrance into enlightenment or Nirvana.  Other Buddhist schools mark this event on February 15th.

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