Do you know Vassa Day? and How's importance with thailand.

Hello everybody, My name is Miss Malai but the other call me that Maemalai, I am not good english, no can speak English but I am tring to communication with you.So today I would like to present with about Thai Traditional. If you travel in thailand you will the beautiful of Thai traditional Whit they are go to respect Budhist image. And today in Thailand, It's Buddhist Lents Day but the Thais people call That "Wan Khao Pansa"(วันเข้าพรรษา) or English name is Vassa Day.This day is very importance in Thailand. Do you know Vassa day. Today I have answer for your reading.

In English, Vassa is often glossed as Rains Retreat or Buddhist Lent,the latter by analogy to the Christian Lent (which Vassa predates by at least five centuries).

For the duration of Vassa, monastics remain in one place, typically a monasteries or temple grounds.In some monasteries, monks dedicate the Vassa to intensive meditation. Some Buddhist lay people choose to observe Vassa by adopting more ascetic practices, such as giving up meat, alcohol, or smoking. While Vassa is sometimes casually called "Buddhist Lent", others object to this terminology. Commonly, the number of years a monk has spent in monastic life is expressed by counting the number of vassas he has observed.

Most Mahayana Buddhists do not observe Vassa, though Vietnamese Thiền and Korean Seon monastics observe an equivalent retreat of three months of intensive practice in one location, a practice also observed in Tibetan Buddhism.

Vassa begins on the first day of the waning moon of the eighth lunar month, which is the day after Asalha Puja or Asalha Uposatha("Dhamma day"). It ends on Pavarana, when all monastics come before the sangha and atone for any offense that might have been committed during Vassa.

Vassa is followed by Kathina, a festival in which the laity expresses gratitude to monks. Lay Buddhists bring donations to temples, especially new robes for the monks.

The Vassa tradition predates the time of Gautama Buddha.It was a long-standing custom for mendicant ascetics in India not to travel during the rainy season as they may unintentionally harm crops, insects or even themselves during their travels.Many Buddhist ascetics live in regions which lack a rainy season. Consequently, there are places where Vassa may not be typically observed.

Thank you for credit information from Wikipedia.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassa#cite_note-5)

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