‘Wat’
To do at the temple
How often do you visit the temple ? Always, usually, often, rarely, or never? Test your Buddhism fever by matching these Buddhist i c o n s with the activity they are most closely connected to.
CANDLE, JOSS STICKS, and FLOWERS
This is the basic set for anyone visiting the temple to PAY HOMAGE TO BUDDHA and asking for blessing.
Sometimes we cover the Buddha image with gold leaf believing this will ensure we have perfect, glowing skin in the next life. Most temples also have a lamp at the entrance to allow devotees to keep the light shining by topping up the lamp with ‘life-giving’ fuel
FOOD
OFFERING FOOD TO MONKS – especially on Buddhist holy days or ‘Wan Phra’ – is an easy and acceptable way to make merit as it doesn’t necessarily involve a trip to the local temple. It is part of the monk’s routine to go out to receive food offering in the morning. However, remember eating after midday is not allowed, so if you want to offer cooked food’ do this before 11am.
YELLOW BUCKET
Must offerings we give to monks come packaged in THE FAMOUS YELLOW BUCKETS. Contents can include dried or canned food, necessities like soap, washing powder, medicine as well as apparel such as a monk’s robe. Note that although monks shave their heads they still need shampoo to keep their scalps clean. Please don’t offer powder as fragrant things are prohibited according to the precept for monks.
STONE BALLS
While travelling upcountry, you may have come across billboards inviting you to a ‘LOOK NIMIT’ BURYING CEREMONY. Do you know what a ‘Look Nimit’ is? A ‘Look Nimit’ is an auspicious stone ball used as the boundary marker of the temple. Before a temple is constructed, nine stone balls are buried in the eight directions on a compass as well as one in the centre of the plot. Above ground pillars engraved in various patterns such as the Wheel of Dharma are constructed. Joining a ‘Look Nimit’ burying ceremony is like talking part in building of a temple, and you can’t get much more auspicious than this.
CROCODILE FLAG & FOLDED GLBBON
These symbols present two similar ceremonies of offering the robes to the monks. Crocodile flags will be flown at a KATHIN ceremony while folded gibbon will be hung on a mock tree in a PHAPA ceremony. The big difference of these ceremonies is Kathin will be held within a month after the end of Buddhist lent while Phapa ceremonies can be held throughout the year.
Asarnha Bucha Day
The word ‘Asarnha’ means the eighth lunar month while ‘ Bucha’ means ‘worship’. So Asarnha Bucha Day is the day of making worship in the eight lunar month.
Asarnha Bucha Day is a Theravada Buddhist festival thatcommonly takes place on the full moon of the eighth lunar month. It was on this day that the Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, after the enlightenment to this five ascetics, Pancavaggi, in a forest named lsippatana marukatayawan, the deer park, near Varanasi.
Not long after the sermon, one of five ascetics named Kondanna got ‘The Eye of Dharma’ and asked for ordination from the Buddha. He became the first sangha or monk in Buddhism. So the Buddhism obtained had ‘Three Jewels’ ; the Buddha dharma, and sangha on Asarnha Bucha Day.
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta the Lord Buddha’s sermon means the setting in motion of the wheel of dharma. Its concept is mainly about the Middle Way, a path of moderation between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification, and the Four Noble Truths : Dukkha (suffering), Samudaya(cause of suffering), Nirodha (end of suffering), and Magga (paths to that end).
‘Wat’
To do at the temple
How often do you visit the temple ? Always, usually, often, rarely, or never? Test your Buddhism fever by matching these Buddhist i c o n s with the activity they are most closely connected to.
CANDLE, JOSS STICKS, and FLOWERS
This is the basic set for anyone visiting the temple to PAY HOMAGE TO BUDDHA and asking for blessing.
Sometimes we cover the Buddha image with gold leaf believing this will ensure we have perfect, glowing skin in the next life. Most temples also have a lamp at the entrance to allow devotees to keep the light shining by topping up the lamp with ‘life-giving’ fuel
FOOD
OFFERING FOOD TO MONKS – especially on Buddhist holy days or ‘Wan Phra’ – is an easy and acceptable way to make merit as it doesn’t necessarily involve a trip to the local temple. It is part of the monk’s routine to go out to receive food offering in the morning. However, remember eating after midday is not allowed, so if you want to offer cooked food’ do this before 11am.
YELLOW BUCKET
Must offerings we give to monks come packaged in THE FAMOUS YELLOW BUCKETS. Contents can include dried or canned food, necessities like soap, washing powder, medicine as well as apparel such as a monk’s robe. Note that although monks shave their heads they still need shampoo to keep their scalps clean. Please don’t offer powder as fragrant things are prohibited according to the precept for monks.
STONE BALLS
While travelling upcountry, you may have come across billboards inviting you to a ‘LOOK NIMIT’ BURYING CEREMONY. Do you know what a ‘Look Nimit’ is? A ‘Look Nimit’ is an auspicious stone ball used as the boundary marker of the temple. Before a temple is constructed, nine stone balls are buried in the eight directions on a compass as well as one in the centre of the plot. Above ground pillars engraved in various patterns such as the Wheel of Dharma are constructed. Joining a ‘Look Nimit’ burying ceremony is like talking part in building of a temple, and you can’t get much more auspicious than this.
CROCODILE FLAG & FOLDED GLBBON
These symbols present two similar ceremonies of offering the robes to the monks. Crocodile flags will be flown at a KATHIN ceremony while folded gibbon will be hung on a mock tree in a PHAPA ceremony. The big difference of these ceremonies is Kathin will be held within a month after the end of Buddhist lent while Phapa ceremonies can be held throughout the year.
Asarnha Bucha Day
The word ‘Asarnha’ means the eighth lunar month while ‘ Bucha’ means ‘worship’. So Asarnha Bucha Day is the day of making worship in the eight lunar month.
Asarnha Bucha Day is a Theravada Buddhist festival thatcommonly takes place on the full moon of the eighth lunar month. It was on this day that the Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, after the enlightenment to this five ascetics, Pancavaggi, in a forest named lsippatana marukatayawan, the deer park, near Varanasi.
Not long after the sermon, one of five ascetics named Kondanna got ‘The Eye of Dharma’ and asked for ordination from the Buddha. He became the first sangha or monk in Buddhism. So the Buddhism obtained had ‘Three Jewels’ ; the Buddha dharma, and sangha on Asarnha Bucha Day.
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta the Lord Buddha’s sermon means the setting in motion of the wheel of dharma. Its concept is mainly about the Middle Way, a path of moderation between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification, and the Four Noble Truths : Dukkha (suffering), Samudaya(cause of suffering), Nirodha (end of suffering), and Magga (paths to that end).
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