Asanha Bucha in Thailand is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the full moon of the eighth lunar month (July 11 or 12, 2014, depending on location). Asalha Puja, also known as Dharma Day, is one of Theravada Buddhism’s most important festivals, celebrating as it does the Buddha’s first sermon in which he set out to his five former associates the doctrine that had come to him following his enlightenment. This first pivotal sermon, often referred to as “setting into motion the wheel of dharma,