Join the Great necessity Offering Ceremony for Over 40,000 Temples on April 22, 2025, at Dhammakaya Temple, Thailand. Participate in this sacred gathering to accumulate merit and promote Buddhism.
Dhammakaya Temple and Khlong Luang people protected the flood at Rapeepat Canal together. How is this canal important?
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.
More than 2,500 years ago, Lord Gotama Buddha renounced his lavish princely life to live as an ascetic in search of the ultimate spiritual liberation.
Dhammakaya Nagano Temple arranged the merit activities on December 12th, 2010.
Phra Khru Sitthidhamvites, the abbot of Atammayatarama Buddhist Monastery ,kindly performing as the president of the monastic assembly, paid homage to the Triple Gem after that Phra Khru Bhavanavites, the abbot of Seattle Meditation Center gave an opening speech of the ceremony.
The First 294 Novices Ordination Ceremony in Bangladesh.
This period of the year is known as the Buddhist Lent season or rainy retreat. I would like to know the historical background of this religious event and the activities of monks during these months.
Meditation Center of D.C. arranged the Sunday activities
It is a tradition to have our children ordain for the duration of the Buddhist Lent season so that they can study Buddhism. I would like to know if they gain more merit from their studies during this period than ordination at other times.
