New calendars for the Sangha Uposatha 2017, covering all major traditions.
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 The dates for the holding of the Patimokkha, the Rains Retreat and the Pavarana for the year 2015, in both Sri Lankan, Thai and Myanmar traditions. Read More: Uposatha Calendar 2015/2558  The dates for the holding of the Patimokkha, the Rains Retreat and the Pavarana for the year 2014. Read More: Uposatha Calendar 2014/2556 The Uposatha calendar for the recitation of the Pātimokkha from the beginning of Hemanta 2012 up and till the end of Hemanta in 2014. Read More: Uposatha Calendar 2013/2557 The Uposatha calendar for the recitation of the Pātimokkha from the beginning of Hemanta 2011 up and till the end of Hemanta in 2013. Read More: Uposatha Calendar 2012/2556  This is the short advice taught by the Buddhas who do not teach the full Disciplinary Code (Pātimokkha), which as a rule of thumb it is nevertheless hard to beat. Read More: The Buddhas’ Disciplinary Advice  Ven. Ñāṇavimala was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1955. After twelve years of study and meditation at Island Hermitage, he set out bare-footed on continuous walking tour. These are recollections of some of his teachings by a former disciple. Read More: Ven. Nyanavimala’s Advice  This verse is a well-known summary of the teaching, given by all the Buddhas. In some of the Dispensations it replaced the more detailed teaching found in the Rules of Discipline (Vinaya). Read More: BWV 002: True Cultivation  A new calculator to find out the correct time for dawnrise and midday which are crucial for many of the monastic disciplinary rules and for lay people undertaking the uposatha. Read More: Monastic Dawnrise and Midday The Uposatha calendar for the recitation of the Pātimokkha from the beginning of Hemanta 2010 up and till the end of Hemanta in 2012. According to Myanmar and Sri Lankan traditions. Read More: Uposatha Calendar 2011/2555  The Buddhist calendar calculations are based on the Lunisolar year. Important dates (like the Awakening) being commemorated on the Moon cycle, and the Moon cycle itself being adjusted to fit in with the Solar cycle. Read More: Days, Months and Seasons in Pali  Every second week, with the waxing and the waning of the moon Buddhist monks hold the uposatha meeting. If there are enough monks available then we will confess our offenses and the Pātimokkha will be chanted by one of the monks, while we sit together in unison. Read More: Episodes from the Life of the Buddha 2: The Invitation  My reading of the translation I made of the Udāna, entitled Exalted Utterances, has just been published on mp3 CD in Singapore. Most of the discourses run for around 5-10 minutes so they make for a good short contemplation of the teaching. Read More: Publication of a Reading of the Exalted Utterances on CD |
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