Wat Phra Dhammakaya collaborated with 170 branches of Morality Promotion Center across Thailand to organize the mass ordination project for 5,000 novices, called “Dhamma Training during Summer Break”. On 4 April 2026, at the Ordination Center of Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province, the parents of ordinands and laypeople circumambulated Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya, were asked for forgiveness and offered novices’ robe and alms bowl. There were 365 ordinands at this ordination center.
Why do we arrange this dhutanga? Who will get the benefit from it? Who participate to arrange it?
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Surin province is the Land of Elephant. Elephant is an animal which has been recorded in the Pali Cannon that if the Bodhisattva, who would be the Lord Buddha certainly in the future, was reborn as an animal, he was not bigger than an elephant. Now, the elephants in Surin are alerted to restore the Buddhism...
The mass ordination of 8,000 novices under the ordination program for Buddhism revival throughout Thailand
ธุดงคสถานพิษณุโลก และศูนย์กัลยาณมิตรพิษณุโลกจัดพิธีทอดผ้าป่ามหาสมบัติ ปลูกต้นไทรแก้วมงคลเพื่อเป็นกำแพงแก้วตลอดแนวด้านหน้าธุดงคสถานพิษณุโลก
In the beginning, there were only extensive fields under the hot sun with no trees or buildings. And at night, there was only the star-filled sky.
From no land to a large tract of land From fallow fields to a graceful Buddhist temple From 1 Bhikku to tens to hundreds to a thousand and increasing From 100 laypeople to 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1 million in the future