Khao Phansa, traditionally falls on the first day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month. During for three months in the rainy season. During the three-month annul “rain retreat,” monks study more and teach those who have chosen this period to enter monkhood. Laymen usually visit temples to offer monks food, clothing, medicine, flower, joss sticks, Lenten candles and other offerings. Such practices they consider highly meritorious.