Sri Lanka Postcards – Lion
A 50cent Postcard of Sri Lanka featuring Lion or Singha.
Advertisements
Sri Lanka Postcards – Lion
Fauna
110 Years of Postcards – Nepal
110 Years of Postcards – Nepal
Nepal issued a 75 Paise Postcard to commemorate 110 Years of PostCard.It features a running horse and Crossed Kukri (Nepalese Sword) insignia.
Burma George VI Air Mail Envelope -Birds.
Burma George VI Air Mail Envelope -Birds.
A Rupee One Pre Stamped Burma Air Mail Envelope with Peacock and George VI in Stamp design is listed.
Stamps on Four Sights -Sri Lanka Vesak 2013.
Buddha’s Birthday – Buddha Purnima -Vesak -Stamps of Sri Lanka 2013
Stampdigest wishes all its readers a Happy Buddha Purnima or Vesak on 19 May 2019.
Gautam Buddha’s Birthday is a holiday traditionally celebrated in East, South and South East Asia. It is based on Asian Lunisolar Calendars and is primarily celebrated in Baisakh month of Buddhist Calendar and Bikram Samvat of Hindu Calendar and that is why called Vesak. It also falls on full moon Uposotha day in 5th or 6th Lunar Month. It is also celebrated on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The full moon is Purnima in Sanskrit and hence Buddha Purnima. It is celebrated in April, May or June based on Gregorian Calendar. In 2019 it is being celebrated on 19th May.
In 2013 Sri Lanka issued a set of four stamps and a miniature sheet to celebrate Vesak. The stamps feature incidents from the life of Young Prince Siddhartha (Gautam Buddha). He goes out of his Palace in a Chariot accompanied by his Charioteer Channa or Chandaka. These are referred to as Four sights which led Buddha to enlightenment.
SL Rupees 4.00 – Prince Siddhartha encountered an Old Man.
SL Rupees 5.00- Prince Siddhartha encountered a Diseased Man
SL Rupees 15.00- Prince Siddhartha encountered a decaying Corpse.
SL Rupees 50.00- Prince Siddharth encountered an Ascetic.
Stamps on Four Sights -Buddhism -Sri Lanka Stamps Vesak 2013
Buddha’s Birthday – Buddha Purnima -Vesak -Stamps of Sri Lanka 2013
Stampdigest wishes all its readers a Happy Buddha Purnima or Vesak on 19 May 2019.
Gautam Buddha’s Birthday is a holiday traditionally celebrated in East, South and South East Asia. It is based on Asian Lunisolar Calendars and is primarily celebrated in Baisakh month of Buddhist Calendar and Bikram Samvat of Hindu Calendar and that is why called Vesak. It also falls on full moon Uposotha day in 5th or 6th Lunar Month. It is also celebrated on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The full moon is Purnima in Sanskrit and hence Buddha Purnima. It is celebrated in April, May or June based on Gregorian Calendar. In 2019 it is being celebrated on 19th May.
In 2013 Sri Lanka issued a set of four stamps and a miniature sheet to celebrate Vesak. The stamps feature incidents from the life of Young Prince Siddhartha (Gautam Buddha). He goes out of his Palace in a Chariot accompanied by his Charioteer Channa or Chandaka. These are referred to as Four sights which led Buddha to enlightenment.
SL Rupees 4.00 – Prince Siddhartha encountered an Old Man.
SL Rupees 5.00- Prince Siddhartha encountered a Diseased Man
SL Rupees 15.00- Prince Siddhartha encountered a decaying Corpse.
SL Rupees 50.00- Prince Siddharth encountered an Ascetic.
Bhutan Sheetlet – Insects and Spiders-1997
Bhutan Sheetlet – Insects and Spiders-1997
Bhutan issued a sheetlet on 15 Jan 1997 on Insects and Spiders. 25 stamps were issued.
1 Ch – Giant Himalayan Honeybee 2Ch -Flower Chafer 3Ch -Long-Winged Conehead Cricket 4 Ch -Oriental Cockroach 5 Ch -Great Diving Beetle 10 Ch – Hercules Beetle 15 Ch -Ladybird 20 Ch- Red-tailed Flesh Fly 25 Ch-Stag Beetle 30 Ch- Caterpillar 35 Ch-Red underwing moth 40 Ch- Hawaii Longhorn Beetle. 45 Ch-Giant Ichneumon Wasp 50 Ch- Field Cricket 60 Ch- Elephant Hawk-Moth. 65 Ch -Pond Skater 70 Ch- Banded Demoiselle 80 Ch- Ground Beetle 90 Ch -Stinkbug 1Nu -Giant Hairy Scorpion 1.50 Nu -German Wasp 2 Nu-Lanternfly 2.50 Nu-Praying Mantis 3 Nu -European Garden Spider 3.50 Nu -Rose Windmill 15 Nu -Cockchafer
Bhutan Birds on Stamps -1998.
Bhutan Birds on Stamps -1998.
Bhutan issued a sheet of 12 stamps on Birds on 28 July 1998.
10 Ch -Red -Billed Chough 30 Ch -Great Hornbill 50 Ch- Horsfield’s Bush Lark
70 Ch- Chestnut-flanked White-eye 90 Ch- Oriental-Magpie Robin
1Nu-Mrs Gould’s Sunbird 2 Nu -Common Tailorbird 3 Nu- Mallard
5 Nu- Great Spotted Cuckoo 7 Nu -Goldcrest 9 Nu -Common Myna
10 Nu -Green Cochoa
