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Buddhism is thriving in Mongolia-by Gonchig Ganbold Source:Dailynews Vesak (Pali: Vesakha, Sanskrit: Vaisakha), known as Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day is observed by Buddhist communities in and beyond India as the day of the Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana of Gautama Buddha. Mongolians also plan to celebrate Buddha Day today (26) which has been declared a public holiday. In the seventh century Xuanzang, a Chinese traveller, who was a Buddhist monk and a scholar recorded that while traversing the Gobi Desert on the way to reach the Silk Road, he saw Buddhist temples in the territory of Mongols, where monks were doing puja and studying, as well as chanting in an Indian language. ...