{"id":17187,"date":"2024-07-19T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2024-07-19T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:23:14","slug":"asalha-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/2024\/07\/19\/asalha-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"Asalha Puja \u2013 20th and 21st of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full moon of the eight lunar month is when we celebrate Asalha Puja, also known as Dhamma Day, one of our important celebrations. We remember the Buddha\u2019s first sermon, the \u2018Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta\u2019, the \u2018Sermon in the Deer Park\u2019 at Sarnath, setting out the teaching which gives life nobility.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of the teaching was understood in its essentials by Venerable Kondanyo. The Wheel of the Dhamma was set in motion for the blessing of all. The teaching, The Four Noble Truths, is the basis for all the subsequent teachings of the Lord Buddha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Saturday, 20th of July<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There will be the usual puja and meditation at 19.30, followed by a talk given by Ajahn Vajiro. Afterwords there will be a Stupa Circumambulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Sunday, 21st of July<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">9.30 a.m. \u2013 arrival<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10 a.m. \u2013 Request of the 5 Precepts and Chanting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10.30 a.m. \u2013 rice pindabat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">11 a.m. \u2013 meal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">12:00 \u2013 Stupa Circumambulation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All are welcome<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full moon of the eight lunar month is when [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sumedharama.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}