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- America (USA)
- Bangladesh (where it is known as Kaṭhina Cībar Dān)
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Cambodia (Khmer)
- India
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Thailand (Siam)
- Vietnam [1, 2].
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Kathina is a time of giving and for lay Buddhists to express gratitude to Buddhist monastics (bhikkhus and bhikkhunis) [3, 4].
Lay Buddhists bring donations to temples, especially new robes for monastics. The gift of the Eight Requisites [5] (aṭṭha parikkhārā or Atapirikara in Sri Lanka) is also part of the offerings [1, 3, 4].
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Why, what is it?
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They had to stop at Saketa (the ancient name for the holy city of Ayodhya, India [1, 7], site of intense Diwali celebrations).
According to the Buddha's rules and guidelines for observance of the Rains Retreat, mendicant monastics should refrain from travel during the rainy season because by walking and wandering they may unintentionally harm crops and insects during their journeys [8]. That is why the 30 monks had to stop [1, 7].
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They passed their time together without conflict, practicing Dhamma (Teachings). Therefore, afterwards, the Buddha rewarded them by demonstrating a way to practice sharing and generosity (dana).
A lay Buddhist disciple had previously donated pieces of cloth to the Buddha, so the Buddha gave those pieces of cloth to the group of monastics and told them to make stitch them into a patchwork robe and offer it as a gift to one among them.
The frame, called a kathina, was used to hold the pieces of cloth to stitch into a robe [1, 7]. The Buddha informed lay disciples that the offering of this kind of robe, following the intensive practice of monastics for the previous season, results in the highest merits for them.
- [Presumably, this would be because of the greater likelihood that one or more practicing monastics will have attained distinction in meditation, either the absorptions or the stages of enlightenment, and things given to such people are immensely and exponentially more meritorious for the giver to provide.]
