Indian Embassy offers Waso robes

TO commemorate the Second Full Moon Day of Waso (Dhammacakka Day), a sacred day for the Buddha’s first ser­mon, the Embassy of India in Yangon held a Waso robe-offering cere­mony at the India Centre on Merchant Road, Yan­gon, at 4 pm on 29 July.

At the ceremony, of­ficials from the Indian Embassy offered Waso robes and other offerto­ries to venerable monks led by the Mawkyun Sayadaw, Bhaddanta Silakkhandhabhivamsa (Golden Jubilee Tip­iṭakadhara Dhamma­bhaṇḍāgārika, Tipitaka Pāḷi Pāragū).

The ceremony was attended by the Ambas­sadors and diplomatic mission members from Nepal and Sri Lanka, the Chairman of the All-Myanmar Hindu Central Council, heads and officials from the In­ternational Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Sitagu Inter­national Buddhist Acad­emy, and the Rakhine Literature and Culture Association, as well as members of the Board of Trustees of the Sule Pagoda and Botahtaung Pagoda.

Following this, an exhibition on historical Buddhist sites in India was opened and viewed by officials and attend­ees. — MT/ZN