Sunday July 20, 2025

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.

10:30 am – Opening Ceremony and Five Precepts
11:00 am – Alms Round
11:30 am – Meal Offering and Lay Community Meal
12:30 pm – Vassa Candle Making Ceremony*
  1:59 pm – Blessing from Monastics

*The light of Vassa candles is offered to support the mind in achieving desired results.

Anumodana and Thank you to all!

10 years of  generosity and support have allowed OAOR to grow and continue to be a refuge for the Triple Gem: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha.

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