Mahaa Wagyawai Powe festival begins today

Traditional Mahaa Wagyawai Powe festival, the second largest festival of Marma community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, will begin in Bandarban today.

Indigenous Buddhists will celebrate the three-day festival welcoming Probarana Purnima.

However, the festival, Probarana Purnima, was celebrated in other hill districts yesterday.  

Shuvo Probarana Purnima, also known as Ashwini Purnima, marks the conclusion of the three-month-long seclusion of the monks inside their monasteries for self-edification and atonement for defilement.

Later, the month-long Kathin Chibar Dan is followed by Probarana festival, when devotees present monks with robes for the welfare of every being and entire mankind.