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