During the 3 days of last weekend we had in Brisbane, South Bank Buddha Birth Day Festival. And even though it was Buddha birthday we were really nice surprised by mutli-religions of that festival. In amphitheatre, where the Buddha Birth Day festival took place,many choirs and band occured and presented religious songs from diferent religions. There were also many Buddhists’ traditions. In one of that ceremonial we took part. It was ceremonial of “carrying light”. Every person in amphitheatre got in the hand little burnning candle and with the New Year’s wish carried the candle to Buddha. At the same time, monks came to the altar and started praying. Despite of that for us it was only exploration time, the atmosphere in the amphitheatre was full of mysticism.
Outside the amphitheatre, on South Bank along the river there was plenty of stalls with suvenirs, food, there was also wishing well ,and a whirligig – and all of that in the chinese lantern lights. For the ends of the festival there were a fireworks. For the better view and seafty the firewoeks popped from the platform at the river. It was beautiful!
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