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The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in Malaysia and Singapore and by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions.
Lunar Dharma Dates for 2024: Buddha Days, Recurring Puja Days, Annual Celebrations in Three Buddhist Traditions. Most special days in Buddhist Practices tend to align on lunar calendars. Buddha’s birthday, for example, varies on the Western calendar year-to-year. (Dates below are updated to 2024!)
- Lunisolar Time Reckoning
- Calendar Structure
- When Does The Year Begin?
- When Was Year 1?
- Leap Year Rules
- Accuracy
The Buddhist calendar employs a lunisolar system, meaning that it keeps track of the apparent movements of both the Moon and the Sun. It is derived from the lunisolar Hindu calendar. Developed in ancient Burma (present-day Myanmar) and traditionally used in many regions of Southeast Asia, it no longer has the status of an official calendar in any c...
The Buddhist calendar divides a common year into 12 months, their length alternating between 29 and 30 days. While this basic structure is common to all variants of the Buddhist calendar, the names of the months are different in each language. In some versions, numbers are used instead of names. Months in the Gregorian calendar Like in the Hindu ca...
Another similarity between the Hindu calendar and the Buddhist system is the fact that the new year begins as the Sun traverses into the zodiac sign of Aries. This date, as well as the Buddhist calendar year as a whole, is dependent on the length of a sidereal year, which is the time the Earth needs to complete a full orbit around the Sun in relati...
The Buddhist calendar uses the Gautama Buddha's date of death—or, in Buddhist terms, the moment Buddha reached parinirvana—as its starting point. While there is disagreement about the exact year, some versions of the calendar starting their year count in years 543 or 545 BCE, the most commonly observed year numbering system starts in year 544 BCE.
The calendar designates 7 years within a 19-year cycle as leap years, in which an extra 30-day month is added following the summer month of Āṣāḍha / Waso. For further fine-tuning, 11 years within a 57-year cycle are defined as great leap years, where one day is added to the month of Jyaiṣṭha / Nayon. There are regional variations. More about leap y...
Buddhist time reckoning is fairly inaccurate when it comes to reflecting the length of a solar year and the onset of the seasons. This is because it aims to reflect the length of a sidereal year while the 19-year cycle used to determine the distribution of leap years is based on the length of a tropicalyear. How accurate are the other calendar syst...
The years follow the Buddhist Era, introduced in 1913 to replace the Rattanakosin Era, which in turn replaced the Chula Sakarat in 1889. The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar (Anno Domini), so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567.
29 mar 2024 · Thailand is the only country that uses the Buddhist Era calendar as its official date system, so it’s an important aspect of Thai life to understand. In the Thai language, the Buddhist Era is referred to as “PuttaSakarat” (พุทธศักราช).
These Buddhist holy days (wan phra) take place four times throughout a lunar cycle, on the new moon, half moon, full moon and half moon again. They are marked on Thai calendars with tiny full-, half- and new-moon icons. This is a Theravada Buddhist tradition observed across the region in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
The Thai Buddhist Calendar (Similar to the Laotian and Cambodian tradition) Visakha Puja - falls on the full moon of the sixth month of the lunar year (around the middle of May on the international calendar).
