Hanamatsuri 2024
Guadalupe Buddhist Church Community
An annual event held in April to celebrate Buddha's birthday, the community comes together to build the flower altar.
Hanamatsuri is a Japanese word that literally means "flower festival". It's also known as Buddha's Birthday Flower Festival, and is a spring festival that celebrates the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became the Buddha.
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