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The Morning Alms Offering to 1,000,000 Monks to worship the Lord Buddha and celebrate the Anniversary of the Lord Buddha’s 2,600th Enlightenment Day
The Morning Alms Round is a kind of Buddhist cultures that Buddhists have done it since the Buddha Time.
The Great Merit of Offering alms to over 100,000 monks across Bangkok
This is to offer to 1,000,000 total monks for celebrating the Anniversary of the Lord Buddha’s 2,600th Enlightenment Day.
The Morning Alms Round to the monks is a nice culture and affects Thai people since the past. Unfortunately, this culture becomes less from Thai societies because of the economics and social competitions in material and technology. With the objectives to inspire the Four Buddhist Communities to keep this nice culture to be strengthen in their communities and to be the valuable Dhamma legacy for the next generations, the Most Ven. Phrathepyanmahamuni (Luang Phaw Dhammajayo), the abbot of Dhammakaya Temple, initiated to establish the “Morning Alms Offering to 500,000 Monks from all temples in 76 provinces nationwide Project” with 40 party organizations in 2008. From this project, there were over 245 offerings and 500,222 monks and novices were the merit fields. This project has woken all congregations because there had never been in Thailand.
In 2010, the “Morning Alms Offering to 1,000,000 Monks from all temples in 77 provinces nationwide Project” was first held on July 25th, 2010 at Phrabuddhabat Voramahavihara Temple in Phrabuddhabat district, Saraburi province and was arranged over 450 times, so there were about 900,000 monks receiving alms. So that the operational committees including of the monks, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Royal Thai Police, Ministry of Culture, the National Office of Buddhism, the World Fellowship of Buddhist Youth, the Single Mind Federation, Dhammakaya Temple and Foundation as well as over 40 party organizations agree to arrange the Morning Alms Rounds across Bangkok to complete offering to 1,000,000 total monks to celebrate the Anniversary of the Lord Buddha’s 2,600th Enlightenment Day. This ceremony is beginning at 6:30 a.m. in the following area.
Saturday March 10th, 2012 – Saphan Mai – Ying Charoen Market to 12,600 monks
Sunday March 11th, 2012 – Kaset Junction – Ratchayothin Crossroad to 12,600 monks
Saturday March 17th, 2012 – Ladprao 5-Junction – Saphan Khwai to 12,600 monks
Sunday March 18th, 2012 – CentralWorld Department Store, Ratchaprasong Road to 22,600 monks
Saturday March 24th, 2012 – Yaowarat Road – Charoenkrung Road to 30,000 monks
Sunday March 25th, 2012 – Ladya Road – Wongwian Yai to 22,600 monks
Total: 113,000 monks
Moreover, this Morning Alms Round Project has brought the Great Merit Pictures which come from the harmony of the monks across the country because the committees take rice, dried food, and alms from this project to help the monks in the 4 unrest Southern provinces who are troubling from the unrest situation and the victims from disasters all over the country especially from the recently flood disaster in Thailand last year.
The Morning Alms Offering to 1,000,000 monks from all temples in 77 provinces nationwide Project is not only the pioneer project but also the model project which is ready for development to be an important culture for Buddhists in the future because alms offering is the first step of the basic moral cultivation which can lead into the life quality development in all classes of societies. It is our important duty as the Buddhists to support Buddhism thrive more and more.
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Sunday March 18th, 2012 – CentralWorld Department Store,
Ratchaprasong Road to 22,600 monks
Translated by Chadawee Chaipooripat
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