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Guru Purnima
Official name
Guru Purnima (Guru Worship on a summer full moon day)
Observed by
Jain, Hindu devotees & Buddhist disciples in Bhutan, India and Nepal
Type
National, religious, cultural
Significance
To express gratitude towards spiritual teachers[1]
Celebrations
Worship of Guru and temple visit[2]
Observances
Guru Puja
Date
Ashadha Purnima
2023 date
3 July (Monday)[3]
2024 date
21 July (Sunday)[4]
Frequency
annual
Explanatory note
Hindu festival dates
The Hindu calendar is lunisolar but most festival dates are specified using the lunar portion of the calendar. A lunar day is uniquely identified by three calendar elements: māsa (lunar month), pakṣa (lunar fortnight) and tithi (lunar day).
Furthermore, when specifying the masa, one of two traditions are applicable, viz. amānta / pūrṇimānta. If a festival falls in the waning phase of the moon, these two traditions identify the same lunar day as falling in two different (but successive) masa.
A lunar year is shorter than a solar year by about eleven days. As a result, most Hindu festivals occur on different days in successive years on the Gregorian calendar.
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Guru Purnima (Sanskrit: गुरुपूर्णिमा, romanized: Gurupūrṇimā) is a religious festival dedicated to offering respect to all the spiritual and academic gurus.[5] It is celebrated as a festival in India, Nepal and Bhutan by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists. This festival is traditionally observed to honour one's chosen spiritual teachers or leaders. It is observed on the full moon day (Purnima) in the month of Ashadha (June–July) according to the Hindu Calendar.[6][7] The festival was revived by Mahatma Gandhi to pay tribute to his spiritual guru, Shrimad Rajchandra.[8] It is also known as Vyasa Purnima, for it marks the birthday of Veda Vyasa, the sage who authored the Mahabharata and compiled the Vedas.[9][5]
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^"Guru Purnima 2019: Date, Time and Significance of Vyasa Purnima". News18. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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