buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): lay supporters (thai & westerners) lining up for rice offering to the sangha (monastic community) outside western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): lay supporters (mainly thai & westerners) making rice offerings to the sangha (monastic community) on pindapata (alms round) outside western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): bhikkhus (monks, foregnd: luang por ajahn sumedho - most senior representative of this tradition in the west) on pindapata (alms round) receiving rice offerings from lay supporters (mostly thai) outside western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): bhikkhus (monks) & bhikkhunis (nuns) enjoying shared festive meal offered by lay thai community outside western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): sangha (monastic community, abbots, monks, nuns) & lay community (mainly thai & westerners) gathered in dhamma hall of western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery for formal ceremony (note: alms money tree on right) aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): thai sponsor of celebrations (mr. chawalit prapunwong & daughter) formally offering the kathina robe cloth to the gathered monastic community in dhamma hall of western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): monastic community formally accepting the offered kathina robe cloth (in bowl) in dhamma hall of western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: bhikkhu (monk) on sewing machine sewing cloth into robe at end of kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year) in western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year): luang por ajahn sumedho (most senior representative of this tradition in the west, abbot ajahn munindo next to him) adressing the lay community in dhamma hall of western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
buddhism: informal exchange between monastic & lay community, monks offering forest sangha calendars at end of kathina celebration (largest alms giving ceremony of the buddhist year) in dhamma hall of western buddhist (theravadan, thai forest sangha) monastery aruna ratanagiri, harnham buddhist monastery, northumberland, uk.
