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Buddhists Celebrate Magha Puja

Want to see more photos from Magha Puja celebrations throughout Southeast Asia? Browse the #MaghaPuja hashtag and these location pages: วัดปทุมวนารามราชวรวิหาร (Wat Patumwanaram), พุทธมณฑล (Phutthamonthon), and วัดเสมียนนารี (Wat Samien Nari).

This year, February 25th marks the full moon of the third lunar month, a day observed by Buddhists throughout the world as Magha Puja. The day celebrates a series of auspicious events in the life of the Buddha, which culminated in an important teaching that laid the foundations of Buddhism.

The observance of Magha Puja, which is a public holiday in Cambodia (មាឃបូជា), Laos (ມະຄະບູຊາ), Myanmar (တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့) and Thailand (มาฆบูชา), varies by location, but can include candlelight processions, pagoda festivals and meditations.

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June 11, 1963. Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.

Photographer Malcolm Browne, known for his shocking and iconic image of a self-immolating monk in Saigon, died on Monday at the age of 81. Last year, Browne spoke with TIME international picture editor Patrick Witty from his home in Vermont.

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What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes

As a young seeker in the ’70s, Jobs didn’t just dabble in Zen, appropriating its elliptical aesthetic as a kind of exotic cologne. He turns out to have been a serious, diligent practitioner who undertook lengthy meditation retreats at Tassajara — the first Zen monastery in America, located at the end of a twisting dirt road in the mountains above Carmel — spending weeks on end “facing the wall,” as Zen students say, to observe the activity of his own mind.