Children celebrate Buddha’s Birthday during a lantern procession.
JEJU, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – April 8 on the lunar calendar is Buddha’s Birthday. Converted to the solar calendar, this year’s celebration falls on May 14. To kick-start the festivities, lantern processions celebrating Buddha’s 2560th birthday took place in multiple cities across Korea on Saturday.
According to a 2014 Hankook Research study, 18.1 percent of Korea’s population was Buddhist, while 36.7 percent were Christians (Catholics and Protestants combined), and 42.2 percent were atheists.
Lantern procession follows Buddhist ceremony in Jeju.
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