Color of monks’ robes
Why the color of monks’ robes is always either yellow or reddish brown? A foreigner once asked me this question and I could not answer him.
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the first day of the year of the Chinese calendar. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name.
Jakarta Temple Honors the Old Ways of Buddhist Monks
Why is the monk’s robe saffron?
Why so many methods of meditation?
I initiated many friends into the practice of Dhammakaya meditation. They asked me why there are so many methods of meditation and why all the traditions claim that their method is the best. I would like to know how I should explain this issue to them.
Dhammakaya temple
The Dhammakaya tradition in our era started in 1916 when the Great Abbot of Wat Paknam (Phra Monkolthepmuni) strove with a determination to
Tibetan Healing Sound Instruments Mysteriously Alter Space, Mind, Time
Author’s Preface
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 Morning Alms Round to 10,000 Monks in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province
The Morning Alms Round to 10,000 Monks in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province.
Monks, novices and lay Buddhists from all over Thailand and overseas join forces to create “global-cooling effects” on the Earth Day 22 April 2015
PATHUM THANI 22 APRIL 2015 - More than 200,000 monks and novices from every region of Thailand as well as and monk visitors from 12 countries and lay Buddhists from Thailand and overseas travelled to the Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani province for a historic gathering to create “global-cooling effects” with prayer, meditation, and giving on the Earth Day 22 April 2015.
