Asarnha Bucha Day
The word Asarnha means the eighth lunar month while Bucha means worship So Asarnha Bucha Day is the day of making worship in the eighth lunar month.
Asarnha Bucha Day is a Theravada Buddhist festival thatcommonly takes place on the full moon of the eighth lunar month. It was on this day that the Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon, Dhammacakkappavattanasutta, after the enlightenment to his five ascetics, Pancavaggi, in a forest named Isippatanamarukatayawan, the deer park, near Varanasi.