Dear Gunnar and friends,

thanks for the valuable information. While we speak our minds freely
here, the implementation of a universal date Vesak still require
effort from all segments of the Buddhist community.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar Gällmo wrote:
> And besides, Sri Lanka is 5 1/2 hours before
> Greenwich, and Beijing I think is 8 hours before
> Greenwich, so midnight in England is around dawn in
> Asia; the two differences should more or less cancel
> each other.
>
> I think that, for purely practical reasons, and since
> Buddhism is a world religion, not just an Asian one,
> it would be most rational for all concerned to follow
> the dates calculated by the astronomers.