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Jul 12 2025 - Oct 05 2025
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BuddhaDhamma Foundation | Vassa 2025: Online Dhamma Talks and Q&As
This Vassa (“Rainy-Season Retreat”), the BuddhaDhamma Foundation makes a sincere invitation and offering to the global community.
This year, Āsāḷhā Pūjā, also known as Dhamma Day, falls on 10th July. This is one of Theravada Buddhism’s important holy days, commemorating the Buddha’s first discourse.
The traditional Rainy-Season Retreat (“Vassa”) begins on the next day, for a period of three months. Pavāraṇā Day is on 7th October and this marks the end of the three-month Vassa retreat.
During the Vassa, ordained monks and nuns stay in one monastery/temple to intensify their spiritual practice such as learning and reading the scriptures and meditation.
Lay Buddhist disciples are encouraged to use the Vassa to also intensify their practice by observing the higher precepts such as the eight precepts of morality and try to further develop their spiritual faculties through meditation and listening to Buddhist discourses.
The Vassa carries the spirit of being still: not running away, either from our suffering or chasing after an idea of happiness. This is an opportunity of returning home to oneself, to take refuge in our spiritual family, to enrich and deepen our dhamma body with our mindfulness practice.
This is a beautiful tradition the Buddha has created for us to rest and heal. What is left is for us to continue to learn to open our hearts and develop our citta (mind). How fortunate we are to have the conditions to be together and practice this period.
To encourage the global community, the BuddhaDhamma Foundation (“BDF”) will be hosting a *3-month series of Vassa Dhamma Talks and Q&A by Forest Sangha* in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition on Zoom.
The weekend of 26-27 July will be dedicated to the 91st year of the life of Luang Por Sumedho, BDF’s Spiritual Patron.
This year, Āsāḷhā Pūjā, also known as Dhamma Day, falls on 10th July. This is one of Theravada Buddhism’s important holy days, commemorating the Buddha’s first discourse. 
During the Vassa, ordained monks and nuns stay in one monastery/temple to intensify their spiritual practice such as learning and reading the scriptures and meditation. 
The Vassa carries the spirit of being still: not running away, either from our suffering or chasing after an idea of happiness. This is an opportunity of returning home to oneself, to take refuge in our spiritual family, to enrich and deepen our dhamma body with our mindfulness practice.
To encourage the global community, the BuddhaDhamma Foundation (“BDF”) will be hosting a *3-month series of Vassa Dhamma Talks and Q&A by Forest Sangha* in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition on Zoom. 
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Mark your diary to join these Teachers (by alphabetical order) online during VASSA2025.• Ajahn Achalo