Vesakh Festival – Fo Guang Shan Temple Berlin

Vesakh 2025 at the Fo Guang Shan Temple

As every spring, the Berlin Fo Guang Shan Temple invited guests in 2025 to the most important Buddhist festival. The program followed the established structure of the house: in the morning, the solemn Buddha bathing ceremony with a blessing for the youngest participants, followed by a vegetarian communal meal, temple tours, a guided meditation, and a tea ceremony with a calligraphy exercise. The Berlin Buddhist community and the Chinese diaspora from the entire region came together — complemented by Berliners discovering the temple for the first time.