Asarnha Bucha Day is a Theravada Buddhist festival that commonly takes place on the full moon of the eighth lunar month. It was on this day that the Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, after the enlightenment to this five ascetics, Pancavaggi, in a forest named lsippatana marukatayawan, the deer park, near Varanasi.