Polymythcal
Confirmed
Buddha's Birthday / 佛陀誕辰日
- Date
- Place
- Taiwan and diaspora observance; local practice variesTaipei
- Status
- Confirmed
- Original listing language
- English
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About this listing
Fourth lunar month, day 8; Buddhist ritual observance with temple, devotional, charitable, and communal forms. Polymythcal separates the tradition's date rule and practices from its own socio-structural analysis.
Context and evidence
- Entry family
- ritual
- Calendar systems
- Chinese lunisolar calendar; Taiwan civil calendar
- Traditions
- Taiwanese; Han Chinese
- Social functions
- family aggregation; collective memory; ritual synchronization; intergenerational transmission
- Social context
- Fourth lunar month, day 8; Buddhist ritual observance with temple, devotional, charitable, and communal forms.