{"id":3993,"date":"2024-02-07T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2024-02-07T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:40:53","slug":"more-than-100-years-old-the-twenty-eight-buddhas-festival-pilgrimage-will-be-held-again-in-mawlamyine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 years old, the twenty-eight Buddhas festival pilgrimage will be held again in Mawlamyine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>7 February 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that the 100-year-old Twenty-Eight Buddhas festival of Mawlamyine City, which has been suspended for three years, will be held again in the third week of February. A member of the organizing committee of the Twenty-Eight Buddhas Festival from Maung Ngan Ward said that on the evening of February 21, 2024, the Twenty-Eight Buddhas festival will be held for four days along the designated roads in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued said, &#8220;It has been three years since the Twenty-Eight Buddhas festival pilgrimage was not held. It will be held again this year. It is known that vehicles are also being prepared for the festival.&#8221;<br>It is reported that Mawlamyine City&#8217;s Twenty-Eight Buddhas festival started in 1916 from Pa Bae Tan Ward, with the aim of light offerings to the U Zina Pagoda by the Kuthala Wayama Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, people used stretcher to go round and offerings to the Buddhas, and since 1946, Mawlamyine MP Thakin Thin Hlaing led the event and changed it into a city-wide procession and it is held every year during the beginning of the Ta po twae month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-07_14-20-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-07_14-20-44.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-07_14-20-44-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-07_14-20-44-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-07_14-20-44-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 February 2024 It is reported that the 100-year-old Twenty-Eight Buddhas festival of Mawlamyine City, which has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}