Wat Phra Dhammakaya organizes chanting, mass meditation and the great offering of monks’ necessities to 40,000 temples throughout Thailand on Earth Day 2025 in order to share loving kindness with earthquake victims in Myanmar and Thailand.
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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.
On June 14, 2026, Wat Phra Dhammakaya Belgium held a mass ordination for 38 ordinands from 13 countries, emphasizing inner peace through meditation and prolonging Buddhism's legacy.
The Mass Novice Ordination Ceremony. The 5th Ordination of 100,000 Dhammadayada Monks from All Villages across Thailand on Saturday March 31st, 2012 at Dhammakaya Temple.
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 Hair Cutting & Shaving Ceremonies of the Nationwide Rain Retreat Mass Ordination Program 2013
Mass Media visited the ethical training of the National Park Officials at Dhammakaya Temple and found that there was no political significance.
Thai Buddhist Meditation Center in Japan, Tokyo, arranged meditation and taught dharma in Japanese on the topic of “Current Situation of Buddhism in Thailand” by Ven Maha Dr. Pongsak Thaniyo.
Novices in the Mass Novice Ordination for Restoring Buddhism Project in Petchabun Province walked in the Dhutanga to be merit fields for laypeople
