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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier begins his two day state visit to Thailand, the first state visit by a German president in 22 years. [15] 31 January: The Constitutional Court rules that the Move Forward Party and its leaders, including Pita, violated the constitution through its aim to amend Thailand's lèse-majesté. The court also ...
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Traditionally, the New Year's Day is marked when the Sun enters Aries but the day is now fixed in most countries; Myanmar still follows the tradition. It also marks the beginning of the next Buddhist calendar animal zodiac year for certain countries. Full moon of Citta April Sri Lanka Bak Poya: Commemorates the second visit of the Buddha to Sri ...
The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar (Anno Domini), so the year 2025 AD corresponds to B.E. 2568. The lunar calendar contains 12 or 13 months in a year, with 15 waxing moon and 14 or 15 waning moon days in a month, amounting to years of 354, 355 or 384 days.
Thailand uses the Thai solar calendar as the official calendar, in which the calendar's epochal date was the year in which the Buddha attained parinibbāna.This places the current year at 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar.
Thailand, c. 1845. Chester Beatty Library. The Thai lunar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ, RTGS: patithin chanthrakhati, pronounced [pà.tì.tʰīn t͡ɕān.tʰrá(ʔ).kʰā.tìʔ], literally, Specific days according to lunar norms), or Tai calendar, is a lunisolar Buddhist calendar. It is used for calculating lunar ...
Asalha Puja Day: Also known as "Dharma Day" celebrates the Buddha's first teaching on the full moon day of the 8th lunar month, approximately July. [3] Uposatha: This day is known as observance day, there are four holy days on the new moon, full moon, and quarter moon days every month. [3]
Chak Phra (Thai: ชักพระ, pronounced [t͡ɕʰák pʰráʔ]) is a Buddhist festival that is celebrated annually in Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia. [1] The name "Chak Phra" could be translated as “Pulling the Buddha”, “pulling of the Buddhist monks”, [2] [3] or “pulling of ceremonial Buddha image carriages”.