“If it was not because of Khun Yai, I would not be who I am today, and there would not be Wat Phra Dhammakaya and all of its overseas meditation centers today”
Everyone feels excited when there is a new addition to the family. Some of these families are so elated they invite monks to receive offerings at their homes for seven days
Join the Great Sanghadana to 40,000 Temples across Thailand on Earth Day 2026, promoting Buddhist unity, meditation, and community support with 180,000 participants.
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.
Doctors and nurses by the nature of their work often are involved in birth, ageing, illness and death, but most of them are not interested in Buddhism which teaches the truth about life, why it is so? And how should I persuade them to study the Lord Buddha’s Teachings?
Review of Inner Dreams Kindergarten on 24 August 2011. “Memorandum of Understanding” signing ceremony between Wat Phra Dhammakaya and three leading institutions in the world.
Buddhism is unique in teaching a way to overcome suffering, with its aim definitively to liberate oneself from the Cycle of Existence [vadda-samsara] thereby attaining the highest eternal happiness
The Ashoka Pillar Award recognizes moral leaders in Buddhism, presented by the Association of Buddhist Benefactors in Thailand, honoring 186 awardees for their contributions to morality and society.
