Category : Buddhist festivals

Sangha Day

Sangha Day

Posted in Buddhist festivals, Religious Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010

The Sangha Day is also known as the Magha Puja Day and is the second most important event of the Buddhist calendar. The Sangha Day is celebrated to commemorate the unplanned gathering of around 1250 monks on a full moon night in Veluvana Vihara. Here the Buddha delivered a sermon in which he outlined a [...]

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Kathina Day

Posted in Buddhist festivals, Festivals in July, Religious Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010

Kathina Day is an important and auspicious day in the Buddhist calendar. On this day, the Buddhist people assemble in the temples and offer robes and other gifts to the monks.
Kathina is a Pali word used for the wooden frame on which the monks used to sew the scraps of clothes to make their robes. [...]

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