Mahamuni Buddhist Society Vassa also called Rains Retreat, is the Kathina ceremony is held, during which the

ring which the ၀ါဆိုသကၤန္းလွဴဒါန္းပြဲ ဖိတ္ၾကားလႊာ

23A Jalan Mas Puteh traditional retreat during the rainy season laity gathers to make formal offerings of
lasting for three lunar months from July to robe cloth and other requisites to the
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October. During this time Buddhist monks Sangha.
Tel: (65) 6777-7018 ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ သူေတာ္စင္ အေပါင္းတို႔အား
remain in a single place, generally in their
temples. In some monasteries, monks Mahamuni Buddhist Society က ခင္မင္
dedicate the Vassa to intensive meditation Message To All
practice. During Vassa, many Buddhist lay ရင္းႏွီးစြာ ဖိတ္ၾကားအပ္ပါသည္။ ျမတ္စြာ
Members & Devotees
people reinvigorate their spiritual training ဘုရား႐ွငသ
္ ည္ မဟာသကၠရာဇ္ (၁၀၃)ခု
You are cordially invited.. and adopt more ascetic practices, such as
၀ါဆိုလျပည့္ စေနေန႔၌ တရားဦး ဓမၼစၾကာ
giving up meat, alcohol, or smoking (Vassa Item Amount
is sometimes known as "Buddhist Lent”). Full Set Requisites S$50 တရားေတာ္ကို ေဟာၾကားေတာ္မူခဲ့ၿပီး
Commonly, the number of years a monk Robe S$25
has spent in monastic life is expressed by Slipper S$10 ဓမၼရတနာႏွင့္ သံဃာ့ရတနာတို႔ ေပၚေပါက္
counting up the number of Vassas he has
observed. Umbrella S$10 လာခဲ့ပါသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ဤေန႔ကို ဓမၼေန႔
Date:
Fan S$5 (အာသဠီွေန႔) ဟုလည္း ေခၚတြင္ပါသည္။
20 July 2008 (Sun)
The origins of the Vassa tradition are
ascribed to early Buddhist times. Gotama Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! ဓမၼစၾကာသုတ္ေတာ္ကို နာယူရေသာ အ႐ွင္
Venue: Buddha ordered his disciples to observe a May all beings be free from sufferings! ေကာ႑ည မေထရ္ျမတ္သည္ ပညာစကၡဳ
Mahamuni Buddhist Society pre-existing practice whereby holy men
avoided travelling for a three month period အလင္းရ၍ ေသာတာပတၱိဖိုလ္သို႔ ဆိုက္
The Management Committee
during the rainy season, in order to avoid
Time: ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ေလာကဓါတ္ တစ္ခုလံုး
damaging crops.
0830 hrs လည္း သြတ္သြတ္ခါေအာင္ တုန္လႈပ္ခဲ့ပါ
Asalha Puja or “Dhamma Day" Vassa Programme
commemorates the Buddha’s first sermon, သည္။
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, given at ဤကဲ့သို႔ေသာ ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္အခါ
the Deer Park in Benares to the First Five Time Programme
Disciples, advising Buddhists to practice the သမယ၌ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ သူေတာ္စင္
Middle Path, avoiding the 2 extremes of st
1 Session အေပါင္းတို႔ အေနျဖင့္ တဖက္ပါ အစီအစဥ္
sensual indulgence and self-mortification, to 0600 Offering of breakfast to the Sangha
realize the Four Noble Truths, namely, 0830 Assembly of Resident Monks & အတိုင္း ႂကြေရာက္ၿပီး ၀ါဆိုသကၤန္း
Suffering, Cause of Suffering, End of
Suffering, and Middle Path to end suffering.
Invited Monks ဆက္ကပ္လွဴဒါန္းျခင္း၊ သရဏဂံုသီလ
0835 Welcome speech by the Sangha
0840 Taking of 3 Refuges & 5 Precepts ေဆာက္တည္၍ တရားဓမၼနာယူျခင္းစသည့္
This resulted in the founding of the Buddhist 0845 Pali Paritta Chanting
sangha, as Kondanna, one of those Five ကုသိုလ္ပါရမီမ်ား ျဖည့္က်င့္ႏိုင္ၾကေစရန္
0910 Dhamma Speech by Ven Thupiya
Disciples attained first level of (Burmese) and Ven Vicitta (English) နိဗၺာန္အက်ိဳးေမွ်ာ္ကိုး၍ ႏိႈးေဆာ္တိုက္တြန္း
enlightenment, that is a Sotapana, thus 0935 Offering of Robes & Requisites
completed the Triple Gem of Buddha (the 1030 Sharing of Merits လိုက္ရပါသည္။
Teacher), Dharma (the teaching of the 1130 Offering of Lunch to Sangha and
Truth), and Sangha (the Noble Disciples). Devotees
ဖိတ္ၾကားသူမ်ား
Vassa The day is observed by donating offerings
to temples and listening to sermons. The
annual Rains retreat (vassa) begins the
following day.
1700
1715
2nd Session
Taking of 3 Refuges & 5 Precepts
Paritta Chanting (Pali) & Dhamma
ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္
Management Committee

2008 The end of vassa is marked by joyous

celebration. The following month, the
1730
1800
Speech
Offering of Robes & Requisites
Sharing of Merits
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