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Bhikkhunī Sangha Lunar Calendar Commemorative Dates,
2567-2568 BE | 2024-2025 CE 

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Principle Dates

September 17-18, 2024
🌕
Founding Anniversary of Bhikkhunī Sangha & International Bhikkhunī Day: Fourfold Sangha Day
December 14-15, 2024
🌕
Sanghamittā Day
February 20, 2025
🌗
Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī & Bhikkhunī Founders Parinibbāna Day

Note: The lunar dates are fixed on the Indic Lunar calendar, and change year-to-year on the Western-International (Gregorian) calendar

Bhikkhunī Sangha Lunar Calendar
Commemorative Dates 2567-2568 BE | 2024-2025 CE
Dates in Full

Mid-April: Astro-Solar New Year
June through September 2024:
Foundations of the Bhikkhunī Sangha

June 2024

🌕 Jun 21-22

Arrival of Mahinda Thero & Company to Sri Lanka, Jeṭṭha Puṇṇamī Poson Poya Full Moon Day

🌖 Jun 22-23

Anulā & 500 Parivāra Stream Entry & Stream Winning Days

September 2024

🌕 Sep 17-18

Bhikkhunī Sangha Founding Anniversary / International Bhikkhunī Day / Fourfold Sangha Day

Bhāddapada/Poṭṭhapāda Puṇṇamī (Bhadrapad Purnima) Binara Poya Full Moon Day

🌗 Sep 24-25

Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Therī Arahatship Day Assayuja-māsaṁ Kaṇha Pakkha Aṭṭhamī Waning Half Moon Uposatha

October 2024

🌓 Oct 10-11

Sanghamittā Therī’s Parinibbāna Day
Assayuja-māsaṁ Sukka Pakkha Aṭṭhamī Waxing Half Moon Uposatha

*Note: this date is also Mahā Mahinda Thero’s Parinibbāna Day.
* Both Sanghamittā Therī’s & Mahinda Thero’s Cremation Day is one week later

October through December 2024:
Sanghamittā Therī & the Jāyasrī Mahā Bodhi Tree Story Cycle

December 2024

🌕 Dec 14-15

Lunar Sanghamitta Day
Maggasira Puṇṇamī (Margashirsha Purnima) Unduvap Poya Full Moon Day

February through March 2025:
Founding Bhikkhuni Sangha’s Parinibbānas

February 2025

🌕 Feb 12-13

Beginning of Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Therī's Final 7-day teaching
Māgha Puṇṇamī (Māgha Purnima) Magha Puja Sangha Day/Navam Poya Full Moon Uposatha

Feb 12-20

Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Therī's Final 7-day teaching

🌗 Feb 20     

Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Therī & Founding Bhikkhunī Sangha Parinibbana Day
Phagguṇa-māsaṁ Kaṇha Pakkha Aṭṭhamī Waning Half Moon Uposatha
* Note this half moon is also Mahā Moggallana Thero’s Arahatship Day; Sāriputta Thero’s Arahatship Day is one week later on the Phagguṇa-māsaṁ Amāvasī Dark Moon Uposatha

March 2025

🌕 Mar 13-14

Rāhulamātā Bimbā Yasodharā (Bhaddā Kaccānā) Therī Parinibbāna Day
Phagguṇa Punnamī (Phālguna Purnima) Medin Poya Day Full Moon: Celebrating the Buddha's First Return to Kapilavastu

*Note this is also Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī & Suddhodana Rāja’s Stream Entry Day
*Note the following day is Rāhulamātā Bimbā Yasodharā (Bhaddā Kaccānā) Therī’s Stream Entry Day

Bhikkhunī Sangha Lunar Calendar
Commemorative Dates 2567-2568 BE | 2024-2025 CE
Dates in Full

October through December 2024:
Sanghamittā Therī & the Jāyasrī Mahā Bodhi Tree Story Cycle

October-November 2024 (normally in November)
India Pilgrimage dates Nov 15-30

🌖 Oct 18     

The Great Request to Emperor Asoka & Sanghamittā Therī: Asokan Bodhi Pūjā
Kattika-māsaṁ Pāṭipade (1st day) (through Kattika Puṇṇamī)

  🌒 Nov 4-15  

Ashoka's Bodhi Puja w/Southern Branch Sapling: Coronation #1

🌕 Nov 15     

Final Departing Festival at Pātaliputta with Ashoka, Sanghamitta, Bhikkhuni Sangha & Bodhi Tree
Kattika Puṇṇamī (Kartik Purnima) Ill Poya Full Moon Uposatha Day: Bodhi Pūjā

  🌖 Nov 16-22   

Asoka, Sanghamitta & Bodhi Tree's Journeys from Pataliputra to Tamralipti Port
Maggasira Pāṭipade - 1st day of Waning Gibbous Moon

  🌗 Nov 22-30   

Weeklong Asokan Sendoff for Sanghamitta & Bodhi Tree at Tamralipti
Maggasira-māsaṁ Kaṇha Pakkha Aṭṭhamī Waning Half Moon Uposatha
*Note: this date is also Sāriputta Thero’s Parinibbāna Day; one week later is Mahā Moggalanna Thero’s Parinibbāna Day

December 2024
Sri Lanka Pilgrimage dates Dec 9-30

🌒 Dec 1-8    

The Great Departure: Sanghamitta and Bodhi Tree's Journey by Sea India to Sri Lanka
Maggasira Waxing Crescent:

  🌓 Dec 9-19.   

Sanghamitta and Bodhi Tree's Ten Days Welcome on Sri Lankan shores by King
Devānampiya Tissa & Mahinda Thero

     Dec 9-12

Sanghamitta & Bo Tree: At Shore Welcome (4 days, Jambukolapattana)

        Dec 13-20

Sanghamitta & Bo Tree Onshore Welcome: Samuddadasanasala (7 days)

  ✨ Dec 13-14 

Astro-Solar Sanghamitta Day: Rohini Asterism on Astro-Solar Calendar

🌕✨ Dec 14  

Luni-Solar Sanghamittā Day

🌕 Dec 14-15

Lunar Sanghamittā Day
Maggasira Puṇṇamī (Margashirsha Purnima) Unduvap Poya Full Moon Day: Dec 14-15

🌖 Dec 20-24

Sanghamittā & Bodhi Tree's Journey with Great Fourfold Sangha Company to
Anuradhapura (4 days)

🌗 Dec 23-30

Bodhi Tree's Arrival & Establishment in Anuradhapura
Phussa-māsaṁ Kaṇha Pakkha Aṭṭhamī Waning Half Moon Uposatha

🌑 Dec 29-30

Anulā Therī & Founding Sri Lankan Bhikkhuni Sangha Ordination with Sanghamittā
Therī & Arahantship

Sri Lanka Bhikkhunī Sangha Founding Anniversary + Sri Lanka Fourfold Sangha
Founding Anniversary | Phussa-māsaṁ Amāvasī Dark Moon Uposatha

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