SEASONAL OFFERING OF ROBES - ကထိနစီ၀ရ

SEASONAL OFFERING OF ROBES Kathinacivara

ကထိနစီ၀ရ - ကထိန္သကၤန္း၊ ကထိန္ကံေဆာင္ရန္ လႉအပ္ေသာ သကၤန္း။

ဘုရားရွင္လက္ထက္က ပါေ၀ယ်တုိင္းသား ဘဒၵ၀ဂၢီညီေနာင္သုံးက်ိပ္တုိ႔အား အေၾကာင္းျပဳ၍ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား သကၤန္းလုံေလာက္ရန္ ကထိန္သကၤန္းအလႉခံခြင့္ျပဳထားသည္။ ကထိန္ခင္းရန္ခြင့္ျပဳေသာ ရက္အပုိ္င္းအျခား သည္ သီတင္းကၽြတ္လျပည့္ေက်ာ္ တစ္ရက္ေန႔မွ တန္ေဆာင္မုန္းလျပည့္ေန႔အထိ တစ္လသာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ကထိန္သကၤန္းကုိ အမိအဖတုိ႔ထံမွေသာ္လည္း အလႉမခံရပါ။ သဒၶါအေလ်ာက္ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေသာ သကၤန္းျဖစ္မွ သိမ္အတြင္း ၀ါဆုိသံဃာမ်ားစုေ၀း၍ ကမၼ၀ါ႐ြတ္ဖတ္ၿပီး ကထိန္ခင္းရသည္။ သကၤန္းလႉေသာအခါ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ကုိ မလႉရ။ သံဃာကုိ ရည္ၫႊန္းလႉရသည္။ သံဃာ့အစည္းအေ၀း၌ သကၤန္းရွားပါးေသာ ရဟန္းအား ထုိကထိန္သကၤန္းကုိ ေပးရသည္။ လႉေသာသူေရာ ခံယူသူရဟန္းပါ အက်ဳိးငါးမ်ဳိး ရရွိသည္။


Kathina civara; robes offered to the saṁgha for holding a kathina ceremony.
Offering of kathina robes had its origin to a group of bhikkhus known as the Bhaddavaggi Brothers of Paveyya region. The Buddha allowed a special form of offering of robes to the members of the Order who were in need of robes. One-month period from the first waning day of Thadingyut (October), the end of the monsoon rains-retreat period, to the fullmoon day of Tazaungmon (November) was prescribed during which kathina robes may be offered. This special offering is to be purely voluntary. Bhikkhus are not supposed to ask for such donation even from their own parents. Robes are offered to the Order and not to any individual bhikkhu. These are placed before those members of the Order who have observed their rains-retreat period and a prescribed ritual is held in a sima by the saṁgha before disposing them of in the presence of the assembly to the needy members. This special offering of robes brings five kindsof benefit to the donors as well as to the recipients.