Independent:
Mist hung low over the jungle surrounding the Borobudur temple in Indonesia as thousands of the country’s Buddhists celebrated the annual Vesak festival.
Indonesia boasts the globe's largest Buddhist temple in Borobudur and a national holiday commemorating the life of Buddha. http://www.indonesiantourguide.net/?p=25
Known to some as the “Buddha’s birthday”, the holy day also marks the enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha, on whose teachings the religion was founded, and is observed under a full moon by Buddhists across Asia.
In Indonesia, pilgrims walk between three temples, from Mendut to Pawon and, finally, Borobudur, where they line up in preparation to receive alms from members of the public. Indonesia is the world’s largest muslim nation; just two per cent of the population is recorded as Buddhist, but in a country of 240 million people, the religion has sizeable representation.
Nice to see religious freedom in Indonesia, let us hope it extends within sects also.