Visak, why is it so called? Visak --- ဘာေၾကာင္႔ ဒီလုိေခၚၾကတာလဲ

On this very same full-moon day of the month of Vesākha (May), 2633 years ago, Siddhaṭṭha Bodhisatta was born in the Lumbini Park near Kapilavatthu ; 2598 years ago, He became a Fully Enlightened One at the age of 35 under the Bodhi Tree at Buddha-Gaya ; 2553 years ago, He passed away at the age of 80 at Kusinārā.

In fact, for Buddhists, “Visak” is of great significance for the above-mentioned three events of the Buddha; among those three too, the Enlightenment of the Buddha was the most important and significant event, since it did bring the light and freedom to the world, for this reason, He is called “The Bringer of Light and Freedom”. Accordingly indeed, His arising in this world was, is, and will be for the good, welfare and happiness of the multitude, for gods and men, and even for animals and beings in the lowest realms. It was on this very full-moon Day of Visak that it all started in this world and that the triumph of the Buddha Himself and the world alike took place.

In reality, Visak is an adapted word for "Vesākha", which is a Pali month name. The month of "Vesākha" is called “Ka Sone La” in Myanmar, and usually coincides with May. This is the reason why it is so called Visak. Now the word "Visak" has become an international term, noted even on the United Nations calendar.

On this Visak Day, it is a common tradition for Buddhists all over the world to pour fragrant and pure water at the Bodhi Trees at the pagoda platforms or temples in commemoration of the Buddha or as a mark of honoring the Buddha, remembering His unique virtues and match-less qualities. In addition, Mahā Paritta, Paṭṭhāna and some Suttas (Discourses) are either individually or in groups chanted together with observing precepts, teaching and listening to the Dhamma, cultivating loving-kindness and practicing meditation. In this way, on this full-moon Day of Visak, the followers of the Buddha all over the world spend their time rightly and wisely. It is on this very Visak-full-moon Day that the hearts of Buddhists are truly imbued with merit and virtues. What a precious and marvelous Day for Buddhists!


May You Do Good and Be At Peace on this Visak!





Visak --- ဘာေၾကာင္႔ ဒီလုိေခၚၾကတာလဲ




၂၆၃၄-ႏွစ္အလြန္ ေဝသာခ(ေမ)လရဲ႕ ဒီလျပည္႔ေန႔မွာပဲ ဘုရားအေလာင္း သိဒၶတၳမင္းသားကုိ ကပိလဝတၳဳ ေရႊၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္အနီး လုမၺိနီအင္က်င္းဥယ်ာဥ္မွာ မီးရွဴးသန္႔စဥ္ ဖြားျမင္ေတာ္မူခဲ႔ၿပီး၊ ၂၅၉၉-ႏွစ္အလြန္ ဒီလျပည္႔ေန႔မွာပဲ သူဟာ အသက္ ၃၅-ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ဗုဒၶဂယာ မဟာေဗာဓိေရႊေညာင္ပင္ေအာက္မွာ သဗၺညဳတညဏ္ေတာ္ရွင္ ဗုဒၶအျဖစ္သုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိခဲ႔ကာ၊ ၂၅၅၄-ႏွစ္အလြန္ ဒီလျပည္႔ေန႔မွာပဲ သူဟာ သက္ေတာ္ ၈၀-အရြယ္ ကုသႎနာရုံအင္က်င္းေတာမွာ ပရိနိဗၺာန္ ဝင္စံေတာ္မူခဲ႔ပါတယ္။

အမွန္တကယ္ေတာ႔ “Visak”ေန႔ ဟာ အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္ႏွင္႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ႔ အျဖစ္အပ်က္သုံးခုေၾကာင္႔ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြအတြက္ အလြန္အေရးပါတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ ထုိသုံးခုထဲမွာလည္း ဗုဒၶရွင္ေတာ္ျမတ္ရဲ႕ သဗၺညဳတေရႊညဏ္ေတာ္ကုိ ရရွိေတာ္မူျခင္းကေတာ႔ အေရးပါအရာေရာက္ဆုံး အျဖစ္အပ်က္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ႔ ဒီအျဖစ္အပ်က္က ညဏ္ပညာႏွင္႔ အလင္းေရာင္ကုိ ဤကမၻာေလာကသုိ႔ ေဆာင္က်ဥ္းေပးခဲ႔တဲ႔အတြက္ေၾကာင္႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေၾကာင္႔ သူ႔ကုိ “ညဏ္ပညာႏွင္႔ အလင္းေရာင္ကုိ ေဆာင္ယူလာသူ”လုိ႔ ေခၚေဝၚေျပာဆုိတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒီလုိ ေခၚေဝၚသည္႔အားေလွ်ာ္စြာ ဤကမၻာေလာကမွာ သူပြင္႔ထြန္းေပၚေပါက္လာျခင္းဟာ မ်ားျပားလွစြာေသာ လူ၊ နတ္၊ ျဗဟၼာတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ေကာင္းက်ဳိးခ်မ္းသာအတြက္သာမက တိရစၦာန္ေတြ၊ အနိမ္႔က်ဆုံးဘုံဘဝေတြမွာ ျဖစ္ၾကရတဲ႔ သတၱဝါေတြရဲ႕ ေကာင္းက်ဳိးခ်မ္းသာအတြက္လည္းပဲ ျဖစ္ခဲ႔၊ ျဖစ္ဆဲ၊ ျဖစ္ေနပါလိမ္႔ဦးမယ္။ ဤကဲ႔သို႔ ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္ကုိယ္ေတာ္အတြက္သာမက ဤကမၻာေလာကႀကီးအတြက္လည္း ျဖစ္ခဲ႔ေသာ ထိုေအာင္ပြဲႏွင္႔ ဤကမၻာမွာ ေကာင္းက်ဳိးခ်မ္းသာေတြ စတင္ျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ႔တာဟာ ဒီကဆုန္လျပည္႔ ဗုဒၶ(Visak)ေန႔ မွာပါ။

တကယ္ေတာ႔ Visak - ဆုိတာ ပါဠိလနာမည္တစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ႔ “ေဝသာခ”ကေန ေမြးစားယူထားတဲ႔ စကားလုံးတစ္လုံးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ထုိ “ေဝသာခ”လကို ျမန္မာလုိ “ကဆုန္လ”လုိ႔ ေခၚၾကၿပီး မ်ားေသာအားျဖင္႔ ေမလ ႏွင္႔ တုိက္ဆုိင္ က်ေရာက္ေလ႔ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါကေတာ႔ “Visak” လုိ႔ ေခၚရတဲ႔ အေၾကာင္းပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုေတာ႔ ဒီ “Visak” ဆုိတဲ႔ စကားလုံးဟာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာသုံး ေဝါဟာရတစ္ခုျဖစ္လာသလုိ ကမၻာ႔ကုလသမဂၢျပကၡဒိန္မွာလည္း ထည္႔သြင္းသတ္မွတ္ထားၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ထုိ ကဆုန္လျပည္႔ဗုဒၶ(Visak)ေန႔႔မွာ ကမၻာတစ္ဝွမ္းရွိ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြ လုပ္ေလ႔ရွိတဲ႔ အစဥ္အလာတစ္ခုကေတာ႔ ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္ကုိ ေအာက္ေမ႔သတိရျခင္းအထိမ္းအမွတ္ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ဗုဒၶဘုရားရွင္ရဲ႕ အတုမရွိ၊ အႏႈိင္းမဲ႔ဂုဏ္ေတာ္ေတြကုိ ဆင္ျခင္ေအာက္ေမ႔သတိရဂုဏ္ျပဳပူေဇာ္ျခင္း အမွတ္အသားတစ္ခုအေနျဖင္႔ ဘုရား၊ေစတီရင္ျပင္ေတာ္ႏွင္႔ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းေတြမွာရွိတဲ႔ ေဗာဓိပင္ေတြကုိ အေမႊးနံ႔သာေရျဖင္႔ သြန္းေလာင္းပူေဇာ္ၾကျခင္းပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါ႔အျပင္ သီလခံယူေဆာက္တည္ျခင္း၊ တရားေဒသနာေတာ္မ်ား ေဟာၾကား နားယူျခင္း၊ ေမတၱာဘာဝနာပြားမ်ားျခင္း၊ ကမၼ႒ာန္းတရား ပြားမ်ားအားထုတ္ျခင္းေတြနဲ႔အတူ ပရိတ္၊ပ႒ာန္းႏွင္႔ သုတၱန္ေဒသနာေတာ္မ်ားကို တစ္ဦးခ်င္းျဖစ္ေစ၊ အစုအဖြဲ႔လုိက္ျဖစ္ေစ ရြတ္ဆုိပူေဇာ္တတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဤနည္းအားျဖင္႔ ကမၻာတစ္ဝွမ္းရွိ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြဟာ ကဆုန္လျပည္႔ ဗုဒၶ(Visak)ေန႔မွာ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕အခ်ိန္ေတြကုိ အေျမာ္အျမင္ရွိွရွိ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ ကုန္လြန္ေစတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီကဆုန္လျပည္႔ ဗုဒၶ(Visak)ေန႔မွာဆုိရင္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ ႏွလုံးသားေတြဟာ ဒါန၊သီလဂုဏ္ေတြနဲ႔ တကယ္႔ကုိ ျပည္႔ေနၾကပါတယ္။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြအတြက္ေတာ႔ တကယ္႔ကုိ တန္ဖုိးရွိတဲ႔ ေန႔ထူူးေန႔ျမတ္ပါပဲ!

ဒီကဆုန္လျပည္႔ ဗုဒၶေန႔မွာ ေကာင္းတာေတြကုိ ျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ၿပီး ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းႏုိင္ၾကပါေစ!

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@--Visak, why is it so called?
-တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ ဤသို႔ထြင္ေရးတတ္ၾကတယ္။ Eg. English, why should we learn it? John, this is my name.
-so-called+Noun နဲ႔ so called(Verb-3)-လုိ႔ ႏွစ္မ်ဳိးရွိတယ္။
So-called+N-သည္ “အမည္ခံသက္သက္၊…..ဟုေခၚ(ဆုိ)ေသာ” လုိ႔ အဓိပၸာယ္ႏွစ္မ်ဳိးထြက္တယ္။ Eg. A so-called university=အမည္ခံသက္သက္ တကၠသုိလ္ (တကၠသိုလ္ရဲ႕ အရည္အခ်င္း၊ အဂၤါလကၡဏာေတြနဲ႔ ညီညႊတ္မႈ မရွိတဲ႔ တကၠသိုလ္ဟု ဆုိလုိတယ္)၊ A so-called expert; So-called special offers
So called(V3)-ကေတာ႔ “ဤသို႔ေခၚ” ဆုိတဲ႔ အဓိပၸာယ္အတုိင္း ေရွ႕မွာ so called - ျပန္ညႊန္းတဲ႔အရာတစ္ခုခု အၿမဲရွိတယ္။ Eg. Visak, why is it so called? Mr. Know-all, he is so called. မစၥတာ လူတတ္ႀကီး, သူ႔ကုိ ဒီလုိပဲ ေခၚၾကတယ္။ Know-all= ေနရာတကာ “လူတတ္ႀကီး” လုပ္တတ္သူ

@-- On this very same full-moon day
-This very same +Noun = ထို ၊ တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ This very+N ၊ တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ The same+N နဲ႔သုံးတတ္တယ္။ Eg. In this very article, The same book

@-- A Fully Enlightened One= သဗၺညဳတေရႊညဏ္ေတာ္ရွင္ (ဗုဒၶ)

@-- At the age of (35/40/50) = … အရြယ္မွာ

@--Pass away= ကြယ္လြန္၊ အနိစၥေရာက္သည္။

@--- Of great significance =very significant Eg. Of great use=very useful

@-- Above-mentioned =အထက္မွာ ရွင္းလင္းေဖာ္ျပထားေသာ

@--Since = Because

@--Did bring = အတိတ္ကာလကို ေလးနက္ေအာင္ေရးသည္။ ပစၥဳပၸန္ကာလ s, es- ထည္႔ရေသာ Verb - ေတြဆုိရင္ He does bring(He brings) - ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ s, es- မထည္႔ရေသာ Verb - ေတြဆုိရင္ They do bring (They bring)- ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

@-- For this reason = ဒီအေၾကာင္းေၾကာင္႔

@-- Accordingly indeed = ….ႏွင္႔(တကယ္႔ကုိ)ေလွ်ာ္ညီစြာ

@-- Multitude (of) Noun= A large number of people = လူအမ်ားအျပား

@-- It was on this very full-moon Day of Visak that it all started in this world and that the triumph…… took place.
-It is / was…… that……. Emphatic Pattern - ေလးနက္ေအာင္ ေဖာ္ျပလုိတဲ႔အခါေတြမွာ အသုံးျပဳတယ္။ Eg. It is on the internet that everything is available.

@-- Triumph = Great victory = ႀကီးႀကီးမားမား ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ

@--Take place = Happen = ျဖစ္(ပ်က္)သည္

@-- Adapted = ေမြးစားယူထားေသာ

@--Coincide with=(of two or more events)take place at the same time=တုိက္ဆုိင္ႀကဳံႀကိဳက္သည္

@-- Common tradition= လူအမ်ားစု လုပ္ေလ႔ရွိတဲ႔ ဓေလ႔ထုံးစံ

@--In commemoration of(Somebody)=ေအာက္ေမ႔သတိရျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္အေနျဖင္႔

@-- As a mark of =အမွတ္အသားတစ္ခုအေနျဖင္႔

@--Unique=being the only one of its kind=အတုမရွိေသာ
-Match-less=Incomparable=ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကင္းေသာ

@--Either …..or = တစ္ခုမဟုတ္တစ္ခု Eg. You can either take it or leave it.

@--Rightly and wisely=မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ အေျမာ္အျမင္ရွိရွိ

@--Imbued with=full of=ျပည္႔ေနေသာ

@--What a precious and marvelous Day for the Buddhists!
-What a/an Adj+Noun! Eg. What a beautiful flower! What an ugly dog!

@-- At Peace=Peaceful= ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာယာေသာ