Guru Purnima
guru pūrṇimāThe full-moon festival honouring the guru and the sage Vyasa, beginning the monsoon retreat.
Where this term appears
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
Diwali is the new moon, the amavasya , of the month of Kartika . Guru Purnima is the full moon of Ashadha .
- The Rhythms Within the Month Treatise
The purnima , the full moon, is broadly auspicious, a night of completion and light, and a great many festivals fall on it: Guru Purnima , Holi , Raksha Bandhan , the Buddha 's birth in the wider tradition.
- The Summer Turn Treatise
On the full moon of Ashadha , as the monsoon settles in, comes Guru Purnima .
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
When a seeker on the full-moon of Guru Purnima honours the succession of teachers that carried the knowledge to him, the succession is understood to begin here, under the banyan, in the quiet.