Lumbini Festival

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Celebrated from 2nd Friday of December every year for three days, Lumbini Festival is one amongst the major festivals of Andhra Pradesh. Celebrated in honor of the Buddhist Heritage of Andhra Pradesh, this festival provides a close view into the rich Buddhist heritage and takes you back in time almost 2000 years back, to a different world all together. Two main celebration points of this festival are Nagarjuna Sagar and Hyderabad.

The festival is observed to memorialize the religion of Buddhism. The occasion has been named after Lumbini, which is the birth-place of Lord Buddha situated in Nepal. This festival is a sort of admiration to the great soul Buddha, which he taught people through the lesson of purity and serenity throughout his life.

Organized by Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation to enhance tourism in the state, Lumbini festival offers the ideal opportunity to people to peer into the earlier times, when Buddhism used to be the prevailing religion in Andhra Pradesh. The second Friday in the month of December marks the commencement of this event. The celebrations of the festival wrap the entire state with their charm for three days.