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05:00PM Bodhi Pooja, Chanting of Most Sacred Sutta “Dhamma Chakkha Pavaththana Sutta” and Seth Pirith Special Protection Blessings Chanting
05:30PM: Sinhala Dhamma Talk & English Dhamma Talk
06:00PM: Vassana Invitation
07:30PM: Sharing Merits (anumodana) and Blessings
This Sunday Evening Pooja is sponsored by
Mrs Shiromi & Mr Rosco Kariyawasam
Mrs Namal & Mr Thusitha Kariyawasam
Mrs Manjula & Miss Jeevani Jayasooriya
Mr Rajitha & Mrs Lakshi Weerakkody
and Families.
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Dear All,
Greetings with Dhamma Blessings..!
Namo Buddhaya..!
You are cordially invited to our Esala Full Moon Day Programme together with Invitation Ceremony to Annual Three Months Rains Retreat, held on Sunday 10th July 2022 at 5.00PM at temple or from home through online temple by using zoom ID 696 889 1414. Passcode: dhamma
You can attend in person or online. This holiest spiritual day blessings will be very meaningful to attend. We dedicate this Spiritual Three Months to heal the whole world.
It is also very hard time for Buddhist Centre as all our donations and support have been very limited and restricted. We are very grateful to our dayakas (devotees) for understanding this situation and coming forward to keep the centre activities going.
We will continue to host weekly meditation programmes, children dhamma school, pooja blessings, pirith chanting, dana programmes. All are requested to attend in person or online from home.
May all the blessings, merits be with all those who worked very hard to support the centre by monthly standing orders and the other means.
We invite all to join online or in person temple programme on this holiest day Esala (July) Full Moon Day on Sunday 10th July 2022. Programme will start at 5.00PM with Bodhi Pooja, Chanting of First Discourse, Dhamma Chakkha Pavaththana Sutta and Blessings, Vas Aradhana (Invitation to Three Months Rains Retreat).
This day we start the programme with Bodhi Pooja and chanting the first sermon of the Lord Buddha, Dhamma chakka pavaththana Sutta (wheel of Dhamma Set in Motion). Then we invite the monks to observe three months retreat at Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya.
This is a highly blessed and an auspicious occasion, we encourage to keep the day free to join us and share the blessings!
Spiritual Rains Retreat Three Months Season 10-07-202 till 22-10-2022
We invite all our friends and devotees of Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya Buddhist Cultural Centre to attend online or in person on Sunday 10th July 2022 at 6.00PM.
Esala (July) Full Moon Day has many traditional significances. The three Jewels reached a completion on Esala (July) Full Moon Day with the ordination of the five ascetics as Bhikkhus and with the start of the Rainy Retreat “VAS” by the Buddha and his disciples. In commemoration of this great event and abiding to the monastic rules as laid down by the Buddha, the monks residing at Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya are observing their Rainy Retreat “Vas” for the seventeenth consecutive year.
During this season both monks and lay devotees engage in extra Dana (Charity), Sila (Morality) and Bhavana (Meditation). Hence this period is regarded as the highest sacred in the Buddhist Calendar. At the end, to commemorate the success and achievements of the retreat, devotees host Sangha Day Gratitude Kathina Ceremony which will be held. We kindly remind you to keep this date free for this special meritorious ceremony which can be held only once a year in any temple and share the merits of this.
This year the Rainy Retreat “Vas” period happens to be between 10th July 2022 and 22nd October 2022. During this period we are organising a series of Weekly Dhamma Sermons, Bodhi poojas and meditation on Every Saturday Evening for the benefit of devotees and to make them understand to attend to the needs of the Buddhist monks during the rainy season. You can sponsor one week during this season. It is a great blessing to sponsor a pooja during this holiest retreat period. It is indeed in great help if you can sponsor one of these events during this periods to make the retreat success.
One individual can sponsor the event by taking the main responsibility. However it has to be done with the full participation of all the members (dayaka) of the centre.
We also conduct a Special Ceremony on this Full Moon Day July (Esala) Saturday 10th from 5PM till 7.00PM.
We kindly invite you to take part in this programme. If you wish to support by any other means to the day programme, please contact the centre.
Programme: Sunday 10th July 2022
05:00 PM: Bodhi Pooja Blessings Ceremony, Chanting of Dhammachakkapavaththana Sutta and seth pirith protection blessings.
07:45 PM: End of the Day Programme
All are Welcome!
Significances of Esala (July) Full Moon Day
Significances of Esala (July) Full Moon Day
Esala (July) full Moon Poya day is given much significance apart from other two main full moon days Vesak (May) and Poson (June) because it is related to great incidents of the life of Prince Siddartha (Later the Buddha) both prior to and following his Enlightenment. Among those significances, The conception of Boddhisatta in the womb of Queen Maya, The Great Renunciation at the age of 29 the prince decided to leave his palace and beloved ones in order to find the way out of the universal suffering, Preaching Abhidhamma (Buddhist Analytical Philosophy or The Highest Dhamma) to Matru Divya Rajaya (his mother) in the Thavuthisa heaven, above all, two months after the Buddha attained Enlightenment, he delivered his first sermon, Dhamma Chakka Pawathna Sutta (the wheel of truth) to the five ascetics, Realizing the Dhamma all five ascetics became Bhikkhus establishing the community of monks and as a result all three jewels (Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha) reached a completion, Declaration of his passing away to nibbanic bliss, the beginning of the ‘Vas’ “rainy season retreat” of the Sangha or the monks, Realizing the difficulties that mendicant monks undergone to propagate The Dhamma during the rainy season, The Buddha set out a monastic rule for monks to stay in one place during the rainy season, The first Vas was observed by the Buddha and his first five disciples - the five ascetics at Isipathana in Benares, Laying of the foundation for the Ruwanwelisaya in Sri Lanka and its enshrinement of relics by King Dutugamunu, Starting the Esala Celebration and Procession (Kandy Perahera) in Sri Lanka to honour The Tooth Relic of The Buddha which brought to Sri Lanka in 847 Buddhist Era.