Preparing for Vesak

16 May 2010 01:31 pm

A Sri Lankan street vendor makes lanterns from bamboo sticks in Colombo on May 16, 2010. The lanterns will be used during festivities celebrating Vesak Day, an annual holiday observed traditionally by practicing Buddhists in South Asia marking the birth, enlightenment, death and attaining nirvana of Lord Buddha over 2,500 years ago. AFP