Dhamma Day 2025 | Invitation to Enter Vassa
Sun, Jul 06
|Penngrove
Celebrate Dhamma Day and the entry to Vassa at Dhammadharini Monastery
Time & Location
Jul 06, 2025, 10:30 AM – 3:15 PM PDT
Penngrove, 6791 Sturtevant Dr, Penngrove, CA 94951, USA
About the event
Join us Sunday July 6th at Dhammadharini Monastery
(Please note - we had a temporary notion that this event would be at the hermitage, and announced that in a couple of places - sorry for the confusion! It will be at the monastery).
"Dhamma Day" or "Dhammacakkappavattana Day" commemorates the Buddha's setting into motion the wheel of the Dhamma, teaching the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. Dhamma Day is also known as "Asalha Puja" in Thailand and similarly "Esala Poya" in Sri Lanka, "Asalha" and "Esala" being the local names of this Indic lunar month. "Poya" means the "Uposatha" Day, a special fortnightly day of Buddhist observance, and "Puja" means "to honor".
The Buddhist monastic Bhikkhu & Bhikkhuni Sanghas formally enter the three months of the Vassa, the annual South Asian monsoon season retreat known as "the Rains" the day after the Dhamma Day Full Moon. On this day, leaders of our la…