2024 World Meditation Day at Wat Phra Dhammakaya
Wat Phra Dhammakaya organized the mass meditation, the congratulatory ceremony for new graduates of the 9th Pali studies level, the presentation of plaques and scholarships to outstanding Pali schools and the necessity offering to over 2,000 temples including 323 temples in the four southern provinces on the World Meditation Day.
Great Offering in Southern Thailand: 15th Alms Offering to 10,000 International Monks in Hat Yai
International Alms Offering to 10,000 Monks in Hat Yai
Photos Collection of International Alms Offering to 10,000 Monks in Hat Yai, Sunday, 23rd August 2015 at Niphat-Uthit 3 Road, Hat Yai Municipality, Songkhla Province.
Monks, novices and lay Buddhists from all over Thailand and overseas join forces to create “global-cooling effects” on the Earth Day 22 April 2015
PATHUM THANI 22 APRIL 2015 - More than 200,000 monks and novices from every region of Thailand as well as and monk visitors from 12 countries and lay Buddhists from Thailand and overseas travelled to the Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani province for a historic gathering to create “global-cooling effects” with prayer, meditation, and giving on the Earth Day 22 April 2015.
“Dhammakaya Foundation have been aiding 323 temple in four Southern border provinces for ten years”
According to the insurgency of four Southern border provinces including Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani, and Songkhla, this have caused the danger to the Buddhist monk and also troubled the Buddhist activities, ....
The Ceremony of Alms Offering to 323 Temples for the 97th Time within 9 Year
Yala people arranged the morning alms round and the ceremony of alms offering to the monks from 323 temples for dedicating merit to the dead from unrest event in the southern region of Thailand.
The Kathina Robe Set Offering to 131 temples around the world in 2013
The Kathina Ceremony is more special than the other ones because there are many restrictions to do such as this ceremony must be arranged within one month after the end of the Buddhist Lent, etc.
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.
The Morning Alms Round to 10,000 Monks in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province
The Morning Alms Round to 10,000 Monks in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province.
Please come together to make the Kathina Merit with 115 temples around the world
Please come together to make the Kathina Merit with 115 temples around the world. Making merit with one temple, you will get merit like you do it with 115 temples. So merit lovers should not miss!!