Annual Kathina Robe Offering Ceremony

Name: Annual Kathina Robe Offering Ceremony
Start: 2024-11-03T11:00:00+01:00
Location: Varapunya Meditation Centre

Schedule

Sun Nov 03 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Varapunya Meditation Centre | Aberdeen, SC

The Kathina is a robe offering ceremony that Buddhists have been practising for over 2500 years. The fruit from this merit is, as the Lord Buddha expounded in one of His teachings, that sanghadāna, or the offering of alms, yields positive consequences for the donor. The ceremony takes place only during the month following the end of the Vassa (October - November). At the ceremony, people make a special offering of a cloth and, in addition, other requisites to the Sangha and raise funds to support the centre and its activities. Therefore, we humbly request your generous donation towards the construction of the Uposatha Meditation Hall at the centre which is being build now.
This is a communal offering, and main sponsor is Khun Jiraporn & Khun Aekarach and family.
Therefore, on behalf of the centre and sponsors you are all invited to sponsor generously towards the successful annual Kathina Robe offering and Uposatha meditation hall project at the centre and join on the day.
Tentative programme:
1000 Morning Chanting and Guided Meditation
1110 Observing 5 precepts, offering of alms food to the Sangha
1130 lunch together (Buffet)
1200 Offering of Kathina
1300 Dhamma talk and blessing
1400 End and refreshment