Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be observed today in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country. The world would be celebrating Buddha Purnima on May 21, which is the birth anniversary of Gautam Buddha.

The day is a public holiday.

Today, let's take a look at how we too can worship the lord, whose teachings have been guiding the mankind for betterment and peace!

In India, As part of the day's programme, people of the Buddhist community start their celebration by paying a visit to common Viharas, where they observe a longer-than-usual, full-length Buddhist sutra, similar to a service.

On this day, people do not consume non vegetarian food, and dressed in white attire.

People make kheer, and and distribute it as legend has that a woman named Sujata had offered Gautama Buddha a bowl of milk porridge.

Buddha's last words to his followers were ‘Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All compounded things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation.’