Magha Puja

Māgha Pūjā, Makha Bucha, or the Full Moon of Tabodwe (Burmese:တပို့တွဲလပြည့်နေ့ ; Khmer:មាឃបូជា, Meak Bochea; Lao:ມະຄະບູຊາ; Thai:มาฆบูชา) is an important Buddhist festival celebrated on the full moon day of Māgha in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, and on the full moon day of Tabodwe in Myanmar. The spiritual aims of the day are: not to commit any kind of sins; do only good; purify one's mind. Māgha Pūjā is a public holiday in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand and is an occasion when Buddhists tend to go to the temple to perform merit-making activities.