{"id":5243,"date":"2019-08-03T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T07:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2019-09-24T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T10:03:03","slug":"kathina-celebration-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2019\/08\/03\/kathina-celebration-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathina celebration 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have the pleasure of inviting you to celebrate the <em>Kathina<\/em> Season alms offering day with us at Tilorien Monastery on Saturday 19th October.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>Kathina<\/em> ceremony is a very special occasion for coming together as a Buddhist community to share in the <em>Dhamma<\/em> and recollect the Triple Gem. It is centred around celebrating the mutually supportive relationship between monastics and lay people, and cultivating joy through generosity.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018<em>kathina<\/em>\u2019 refers to a type of wooden frame used to make robes in the time of the <em>Buddha<\/em>, which is still used in some monasteries. The month after <em>Vassa<\/em> (monastic rains residence) is referred to as the <em>Kathina<\/em> season. This is a period for monastics to mend and sew new robes, and traditionally the lay community would offer robe-cloth for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the monastic code, a full <em>Kathina<\/em> ceremony requires five, or more fully ordained monastics to be present in the monastery during <em>Vassa<\/em>. However, our smaller <em>Kathina<\/em> season alms offering day, is a wonderful way for our young community to mark the end of <em>Vassa<\/em> and give a similar opportunity to lay people to express their gratitude for the spiritual support the <em>Sangha<\/em> offers, by providing requisites and other support for the monastery.<\/p>\n<p>The program for the day will be as follows:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>11 am<\/td>\n<td><em>Dana<\/em> (Lunch) and chanting. Please bring a dish if you can.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12.30 pm<\/td>\n<td><em>Kathina<\/em>-robe procession<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Offering of a <em>Kathina<\/em>-robe followed by<em> Anumodana<\/em> chanting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><em>Up\u0101saka\/Up\u0101sika<\/em> ceremony and taking of 5\/8 precepts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><em>Dhamma<\/em> Talk by Ven. Vimala<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4 pm<\/td>\n<td>Guided group meditation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 pm<\/td>\n<td>Finish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you would like to come for the ceremony, but live too far away and would like to stay overnight, please let us know a.s.a.p. If enough people are interested we can rent a holiday house near to the Monastery for that purpose. If you prefer to rent your own accomodation, please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/tilorien.org\/en\/visiting\/\">visitor&#8217;s page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5245 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/unnamed-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/unnamed-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/unnamed-3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have the pleasure of inviting you to celebrate the Kathina Season alms offering day with us at Tilorien Monastery on Saturday 19th October. A Kathina ceremony is a very special occasion for coming together as a Buddhist community to&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2019\/08\/03\/kathina-celebration-2019\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}