Buddha's Parinirvana in Bhutan
Buddha's Parinirvana in Bhutan is held on May 21. It is a Buddhist festival that marks the death of the Buddha and his achievement of Nirvana. This event in the third 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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