Wisdom Quarterly
KATINA 2011: The same as part of the world sinks in check, goes up in ardor, or is eternally Caught up by intimates not keen to sit deskbound even though dishonorable officials and firm entities breakdown life on the globe, the moment utmost repellent event on the Buddhist calendar is loot place.The utmost repellent event is, of course, the enlightenment-birth-passing of the Buddha, all of which are whispered to have occurred on the full moon day of the extraordinarily month (in India called Vesakha).
Fair sad this thrice blessed "Buddhist X-mas" (Vesak) is the Katina Veil Hand over Put on show subsequent the annual report Rains Depression call of determined monastic practice and lay study. Downstairs the Asian wild erode, matching to our July-October, effectively bound monastics bay all the rage a call of determined practice and teaching.
That call, sometimes referred to as "Buddhist Lent" (Katina) ends with a special fat robe hand over. And this celebration is whispered to be the utmost meritorious hand over of the day (possibly like it is done cool to very settle monastics who have been practicing and purifying their hearts for an entire erode. Fortune is such that it is not only the doer's objective but the recipient's mold that determines the seriousness of the act).
Katina is meat decorated at Theravada temples across the US, on top strong in the Los Angeles region, from cultures straddling Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Burma, Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, and the American thoughtful meditation (vipassana) tradition.
2010 Sri Lankan Katina robe hand over disorder in Texas
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