Vesak

Buddhist festival marking the birth of the Buddha
Event holiday Q215700
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Vesak

Summary

Vesak is a holiday[1]. Vesak ranks in the top 0.49% of holiday entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,959 views/month, #3 of 616).[2]

Key Facts

  • Vesak's image is recorded as Vesak Day 2555.jpg[3].
  • Vesak's instance of is recorded as holiday[4].
  • Vesak's instance of is recorded as public holiday[5].
  • Vesak's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85146132[6].
  • Vesak's Commons category is recorded as Vesak[7].
  • Vesak's commemorates is recorded as Buddha's birthday[8].
  • Vesak's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f5jp[9].
  • Vesak's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300264564[10].
  • Vesak's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0518936[11].
  • Vesak's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Wesak[12].
  • Vesak's Banglapedia ID is recorded as বুদ্ধ_পূর্ণিমা[13].
  • Vesak's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as vesak[14].
  • Vesak's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wiki Loves Folklore[15].
  • Vesak's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007553632505171[16].
  • Vesak's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 217043[17].
  • Vesak's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as vesak-ab0029[18].
  • Vesak's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as vesak[19].
  • Vesak's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/db4086d0-26df-4072-a5e1-cf60776b5f1f[20].

Why It Matters

Vesak ranks in the top 0.49% of holiday entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,959 views/month, #3 of 616).[2] Vesak has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Vesak is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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