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2024-03-28 14:46

Schedule for Wat Tampa Holidays in 2023.  Clicking on the link for the holiday displays an article on the holiday?

New Year's Day 2023 (Sunday, January 1, 2023)

Makha Puja Day 2023 (Sunday, February 05, 2023)

Songkarn Festival 2023 (Sunday April 9, 2023) 

Visakha Puja Day 2023 (Sunday June 4, 2023)

Kings Birth Day 2023 (Sunday July 23, 2023)

Asalha Puja Day / Buddhist Lent 2023 (Sunday July 30,2023)

Thai Mother Day 2023 (Sunday August 13, 2023)

Sart Thai Day 2023 (Sunday October 1, 2023)

The End of Buddhist Lent 2023 (Sunday October 29, 2023)

Kathina Ceremony 2023 (Sunday November 26, 2023)

Memorial to Phra Mongkol Themolee 2023 (Sunday December 3, 2023)

NOTE:  All events are subject to change according to appropriateness without prior notice.

   

Editors Note:  The following was written by a Monk in the Thai Buddhist Temple in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and was published in the February 2019 Temple news letter.  What Tampa celebrates Thai holiday based on a Sunday close to the actual date based on the lunar calendar.

Magh Puja Day is one of the most important Buddhist celebrations which falls on the full moon day of the third lunar month (about last week of February or early of March).

This day marks the great four events that took place during Lord Buddha's lifetime, namely:

1) 1250 Buddhist monks from different places came to pay homage to Lord Buddha at Valuwan Vihara in Rajgaha, the capital of Magaha State, each of his own initiative and without prior notification or appointment.

2)  All of them were enlightened monks (or Arahantas)

3)  Al of them had been individually ordained by Lord Buddha himself (Ehi Bhikkhu)

(4)  They assembled on the full moon day of the third lunar month.

On the evening of that day, Lord Buddha gave the assembly a discourse "Ovadha Patimokha" laying down the principles of His Teachings summarized into three parts, i.e., to do good, to abstain from bad action and to purify the mind.

Makha Puja Day falls on the full moon day of the third lunar month. The date of all of the Thai festivals is based on the lunar calendar so the "American" dates vary from year to year. We will be celebrating Magha Puja Day at Wat Tampa on  Sunday, February 25, 2024.

Makha Puja Day from a Monk's perspective

This ceremony marks two important dates in the life of Buddha. The first event occurred two years after Buddha’s enlightenment and is referred to as the Fourfold assembly. These events were:

  • All 1,250 monks had achieved enlightenment.
  • These monks were ordained by Buddha himself
  • The monks assembled on their own without being called together.

Makha Puja Day - February 25, 2024

Welcome to Wat Mongkolratanaram (also know as Wat Tampa). Happy New Year!

Let me start today by quoting to you a traditional Thai New Years wish: "By the power of the Buddhist Triple Gems: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha - May you and your family be blessed with good health, beautiful, prosperous, long life, and be successful in your career and in life for the New Year. May all of these blessings and all your wishes be fulfilled."

New Years Day 2024 - January 1, 2024

We will be celebrating the King's birthday at Wat Tampa on July 28, 2024 This celebration will be held after the Sunday Market and the Sunday religious service.  This ceremony typically involves presentation of "symbolic" gifts for the King.  

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