Alms Offering Ceremony at Lotus Land, Suphanburi — Luangpu’s birth place. 9 January 2016.
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.
Victory Celebration…The 6th V-Star Change the World... When millions of children came to do good deeds at Dhammakaya Temple, what happened?
The virtuous life of the Great Master Phramongkolthepmuni (Sodh Candasaro), or Luang Pu Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen, was exemplary from the beginning, in the middle and at the end.
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
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 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.
On May 12, 2015, at 4 PM, at Maharatchamongkol Cetiya, Wat Paknam, Bhasicharoen, Somdej Phramaharatchamangkhlajarn, the abbot of Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen and the appointed acting Supreme Patriarch of Thailand,
The Schedule of the World Meditation Day On Sunday August 7th, 2011 At the International Dhammakaya Meditation Hall, Dhammakaya Temple
