The Kathina ceremony at Wat Metta, marking the end of the Rains Retreat, when the lay community offers robes and requisites to the monks.
The Kathina ceremony at Wat Metta, marking the end of the Rains Retreat, when the lay community offers robes and requisites to the monks.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu has been a Theravada monk since 1976. After training in Thailand with Ajaan Fuang Jotiko, he returned to the United States in 1991 to help found Metta Forest Monastery near San Diego, where he serves as abbot. His translations and talks are distributed free of charge.
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