the day that celebrates the day bud-ah became enlightened
Buddhists celebrate Rohatsu - the enlightenment of the Buddha. It is also known as Bodhi day :-)
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It a holiday celebrating buddah. Of course that means that buddhists celebrate it.
A rohatsu is an intensive 9-day period of meditation in some Zen monasteries. It does not relate to a supreme being one way or the other.
the day that celebrates the day bud-ah became enlightened
Buddhists celebrate Bodhi Day (a.k.a. Rohatsu) on DEC-8, or on the Sunday immediately preceding. It recalls the day in 596 BCE, when the Buddha sat beneath a Bodhi tree -- a type of fig tree -- and is believed to have achieved enlightenment, thus escaping the repeating cycle of reincarnation: involving birth, life, death and rebirth. A descendent of the original tree is the most important of four holy sites of Buddhism.