Sunday July 28, 2024

Please join the OAOR monastics and lay community for an event celebrating the start of Vassa.


Vassa, Rains Retreat, or Buddhist Lent is the annual retreat observed by Theravada Monastics for three lunar months.

10:00 am – Opening Ceremony and Five Precepts
11:00 am – Alms Round and Meal Offering (Followed by lay community meal.)
12:30 pm – Vassa Candle Making Ceremony*
 1:39 pm – Blessing from Monastics

* Offering the light of Vassa candles is to help the mind achieve desired results.
 

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