Fifteen Buddhist organizations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh will not celebrate the Kathina robe-offering ceremony because of security concerns.
Buddhists around the world celebrated the beginning of the three-month rains retreat (Vassavasa) on 13 July. The three-month rains retreat for monks and nuns begins
Attending to the present moment with deep awareness
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Understanding Pali chants
Observing the end of the annual rains retreat
People throughout the country engage in…
Thailand’s Khao Phansa festival marks the beginning of the annual, three-month rains retreat for monastics (Pali: vassavasa), beginning the day after the full moon of the
Pavarana marks the end of the three-month Vassavasa, the rainy season retreat observed by Theravada monastic communities. Commonly falling on the full moon of the
