Kathina – The Splendid Robe Offering Ceremony Sunday, 2 November 2014 at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Thailand
Kathina Robe Offering is a wonderful Buddhist tradition that has been preserved for over 2500 years since the Lord Buddha’s time.
Kathina - The Splendid Robe Offering Ceremony Sunday, 2 November 2014 at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Thailand
Kathina is a special event to accumulate tremendous merits that Buddhists eagerly look forward to each year. It is one of the more difficult merits to perform as compared to other merits due to the following reasons.
Dhammachai Day, the Day of the Declaration of Victory : 27th August
Wind back 45 years to 27th August 2512 B.E., in the ubosotha (chapel) of Wat Paknam Bhasichareon, and we see a great kalyanamitta who has resolutely decided to ordain and devote his entire life to Buddhism.
The Photo Collection of the Ceremonies of Apologizing and Receiving the Saffron Robes
Meditation Homework for Daily Life
The “10 Homework” is technique to the inner happiness, to the fruitful of meditation, to be beloved person.
Wat Phra Dhammakaya California Arranged the Sunday Ceremonies
Wat Phra Dhammakaya California, USA, arranged the Sunday Ceremonies and the Picked-up Robe Set Offering Ceremony to maintain the temple.
The Kathina Ceremony at Dhammakaya Temple in 2013
Kathina Dana – The Great & Special Merit The Kathina Ceremony is a culture that all Buddhists in every era agree that its merit is great and limitless. So, it is the meritorious event of the year that the congregation is waiting for.
Schedule of the Kathina Ceremony of branches of Dhammakaya Temple in 2013
The Kathina Ceremony originated in the Buddha Time because the Lord Buddha saw the importance of changing the monks’ old saffron robes so he gave the permission that each monk could change his old saffron robe. Then, it becomes the tradition that has been done for over 2,000 years.
Novice Apirak Sae-Ho and his new life in the saffron robes
A man who has some brain problems...Once he had been interviewed in a TV program as a grateful man, and he was interviewed again in the same TV program as a novice who wants to pay back his mother's kindness...
The Photo Collection of the Ordination Ceremony and the Morning Alms Round to the 11th International Dhammadayada
The Photo Collection of the Ordination Ceremony and the Morning Alms Round to the 11th International Dhammadayada on Sunday July 28th, 2013