Buddhist New Year
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Buddhist New Year may refer to:
- Buddhist calendar#New Year's Day
- Theravada New Year (Songkran), water-splashing festival celebration in the traditional new year for the Theravada Buddhist calendar
- Songkran (Thailand)
- Thingyan, in Myanmar
- Sinhalese New Year (Aluth Avurudda), in Sri Lanka
- Cambodian New Year (Choul Chnam Thmey), in Cambodia
- Lao New Year (Pi Mai Lao), in Laos
- Sangken, in Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Assam, India
- Sangrai, in Bangladesh
- Water-Splashing Festival (Pōshuǐ jié), in Xishuangbanna in China and parts of northern Vietnam
- Mahayana New Year, a festival celebrating the traditional new year for the Mahayana Buddhist calendar that usually falls on the full moon of January
- Losar (Tibetan New Year), a new year's festival in Tibetan Buddhism that is celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar