Kathina season begins · Kathina

Culture of origin: Buddhist · Cultural

Holiday sources: Buddhism

Kathina comes at the end of Vassa: a season of about a month that begins after the full moon of the eleventh lunar month (Pavarana) and runs to the full moon of Kartika. Lay Buddhists bring gifts to the temples, above all new robes for the monks, with the other requisites, food and money for the temple's upkeep. The name is that of the wooden frame on which, in the Buddha's time, monks sewed donated pieces of cloth into a single robe for one of their number.