1) Festival in Myanmar
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Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists. The season during which a monastery may hold a Kathina festival is one month long, beginning after the full moon of the eleventh month in the Lunar calendar (usually October). It is a time of giving, for the laity to expres...
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A ceremony, held in the fourth month of the rainy season, in which a saṅgha of bhikkhus receives a gift of cloth from lay people, bestows it on one of their members, and then makes it into a robe before dawn of the following day.
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/glossary.html
(from the article `vassa`) ...in which every monk, irrespective of rank or seniority, agrees willingly to receive instruction from any other monk in the monastery if he acts ...
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Theravada Buddhist robe-giving festival. It takes place in October/November, and celebrates the end of
Vassa, the three-month retreat of ordained...
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Theravada Buddhist robe-giving festival. It takes place in October/November, and celebrates the end of Vassa, the three-month retreat of ordained Buddhists. During Kathina, members of the Buddhist laity will visit the monastery, bringing food and gifts. People often gather around the path of the present-bearers, because touching the...
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