History of the Buddhist Lent Day
At the beginning of the Buddha Time, the Buddhist Lent was not appointed, so each monk could teach the congregations throughout the year. Whenever a monk determined that he would like to teach his congregations and he was available, he went to do. Sometimes, some monks did not go out to teach anyone, but they saw some places suitable to meditate, they went to do so. The most places for them were in the forests or on the faraway hills which they had to past the country.
Because of the monks’ traveling and farmers worked in their farms in the rainy season, the monks damaged the farmers’ rice sprouts unintentionally because they misunderstood that the rice sprouts were grass. So, the farmers went to sue the Lord Buddha that the monks damaged their rice sprouts, why the monks did not stay in the temples during the rainy season like birds.
To solve this problem, the Lord Buddha determined that the monks had to stay in the temples during the rainy season, from the first waning moon day of the 8th Lunar month to the 15th waxing moon day of the 11th Lunar month, called the Buddhist Lent. So, the monks have not gone anywhere to practice meditation or to teach anyone. If someone wants to listen to the sermon, he/she has to go to the temple instead of inviting the monk(s) to visit his/her place.
In another aspect, the Lord Buddha had changed this problem to be a good chance for the monks that when the monks stayed in the temples, the new monks were trained by the senior monks fully and continuously which resulted good in the moral cultivation, Dhamma and Monastic Disciplines Transfer and Teaching.
So, the Lord Buddha announced that the monks had to stay in the temples during the Buddhist Lent, the new monks studied Dhamma from the senior monks, and the senior monks taught Dhamma and the monastic disciples to the junior monks.
Not only that, the senior monks had to plan what they would do after the Buddhist Lent, where they would go to spread Dhamma, and how they could improve their Dhamma teaching to be appropriate to places and social, etc.
From that time on, staying in the temples during the Buddhist Lent of the monks is good for people, junior monks, and senior monks.
History of the Buddhist Lent DayAt the beginning of the Buddha Time, the Buddhist Lent was not appointed, so each monk could teach the congregations throughout the year. Whenever a monk determined that he would like to teach his congregations and he was available, he went to do. Sometimes, some monks did not go out to teach anyone, but they saw some places suitable to meditate, they went to do so. The most places for them were in the forests or on the faraway hills which they had to past the country.Because of the monks’ traveling and farmers worked in their farms in the rainy season, the monks damaged the farmers’ rice sprouts unintentionally because they misunderstood that the rice sprouts were grass. So, the farmers went to sue the Lord Buddha that the monks damaged their rice sprouts, why the monks did not stay in the temples during the rainy season like birds.To solve this problem, the Lord Buddha determined that the monks had to stay in the temples during the rainy season, from the first waning moon day of the 8th Lunar month to the 15th waxing moon day of the 11th Lunar month, called the Buddhist Lent. So, the monks have not gone anywhere to practice meditation or to teach anyone. If someone wants to listen to the sermon, he/she has to go to the temple instead of inviting the monk(s) to visit his/her place.In another aspect, the Lord Buddha had changed this problem to be a good chance for the monks that when the monks stayed in the temples, the new monks were trained by the senior monks fully and continuously which resulted good in the moral cultivation, Dhamma and Monastic Disciplines Transfer and Teaching.So, the Lord Buddha announced that the monks had to stay in the temples during the Buddhist Lent, the new monks studied Dhamma from the senior monks, and the senior monks taught Dhamma and the monastic disciples to the junior monks. Not only that, the senior monks had to plan what they would do after the Buddhist Lent, where they would go to spread Dhamma, and how they could improve their Dhamma teaching to be appropriate to places and social, etc.From that time on, staying in the temples during the Buddhist Lent of the monks is good for people, junior monks, and senior monks.
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