Buddha's Parinirvana in Bhutan
Buddha's Parinirvana in Bhutan is held on May 12. It is a Buddhist festival that marks the death of the Buddha and his achievement of Nirvana. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. 
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Parinirvana is a Mahayana Buddhist festival that marks the death of the Buddha. Buddhists celebrate the death of the Buddha, because they believe that having attained Enlightenment, he achieved freedom from physical existence and its sufferings.
The Buddha’s death came when he was eighty years old, and had spent forty years teaching after his Enlightenment.
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Buddha's First Sermon in Bhutan on June 29 (The day is celebrated according to the Buddhist Calendar, on the fourth day of the sixth month);
Bhutan Independence Day on August 8 (from India, since 1949);
Blessed Rainy Day in Bhutan on September 23 (a holiday marks the end of the monsoon season in the country. On this day, all natural water resources in the state are considered sanctified);
Dashain on September 23 (is celebrated by the Buddhist, Hindus and Kirats of Nepal and the ethnic Nepali speaking Indian Gorkhas of Darjeeling hills, Sikkim, Dehradun, Kumaun & Gadwal and other North-Eastern states of India and among the Lhotshampa of Bhutan and the Burmese Gurkhas of Myanmar)