Sri Lanka Glorifies Binara Poya Day

September 23

*Binara Poya Day is a public holiday in Sri Lanka.

In Sri Lanka, Poya Day is a Buddhist public holiday.

A full moon day is called a Poya.

In the month of September Binara Full Moon Poya Day celebrates the Buddha’s visit to heaven.

It was during this visit in heaven,

that the Buddha preached to his mother and to the heavenly multitude.