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Kathina Ceremony 2024

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November 02nd 05:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pirith Day

  • “Dansala” – Food for attendees
  • Offerings to 28 buddhas
  • Special pirith chanting and giving blessings for all
November 03rd 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM Kathina Day

  • “Pindapata” - Offering alms, robes, and gifts for monks and nuns
  • “Dansala” – Food for attendees
  • Kathina parade, dhamma talks, chanting and giving blessings

If you would like to sponsor the event you can do so by contributing to one of the following items.

Eightfold requisites $150
Set of robes $100
Gift envelopes for monks/nuns $200
Transportation for monks/nuns $100

Please contact the temple if you would like to make any other monetary donations.

Event Signup responses

Daily Daana for the temple

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ලුවිවිල් විහාරස්ථානය සඳහා අවශ්‍ය දෛනික දානය සපයා ගැනීමට ඔබට හැකියාවක් ඇති පරිදි දායක වෙන මෙන් කෙරෙන කාරුණික ආරාධනයයි මේ. ඔබට දානය සපයා දීමට හැකියාවක් ඇතිනම් පහත වෙබ් අඩවිය හරහා ඊට දිනයක් තෝරා ඔබේ තොරතුරු ලබාදීමට හැක. සතියේ දිනවල ඊට ඉදිරිපත් විය හැකි නම් ඔබගේ රාජකාරී කටයුතු අවසන් වූ පසු සවස් කාලයේදී විහාරස්ථානයට පැමිණ පසු දින උදෙසා දානය ලබා දිය හැක. ඔබ බාරගත් දානය පිලිබදව නන්ද ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේට දුරකථන ඇමතුමක් ලබාදී තහවුරු කරන ලෙසද කාරුණිකව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

This is an invitation for all the friends and devotees of the Louisville temple to help provide the necessary daily dana for the temple. You can be a part of this good deed at your convenience. Please follow the link below to check the daana calendar and sign up. If you wish to provide dana in a weekday, you can bring it to the temple after your work. If you signed up for a daana, please call reverend Nanda for a confirmation.

Sri Lankan New Year Celebration 2018

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On behalf of the Kentucky Buddhist Vihara we wish all our friends and well-wishers a very Happy Sinhala and Tamil New Year and cordially invite you to the New Year Festival which will be held on Sunday, April 22nd at at Kentucky Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple from 9:30 AM. There will be cultural and religious activities and food at this event. Each family is encouraged to bring some food to share with others. Since several activities have to be accommodated within a limited program time, you are kindly requested to be present on time. Your participation at this event is greatly appreciated.

Click here to sign up for the event

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The agenda is as follows:

Please arrive at 9:30 AM

10:00 AM Lighting the “Magul Pahana” and reciting the “Jathika Geeya”
10:30 AM Observe “Pansil”
11:00 AM Obtaining blessings from elders
11:30 AM “Kiri Ahara Pujawa”
11.45 AM Opening the “Awurudu Mesaya” and offering “Dana” to Sangha
12:30 PM “Awurudu Mesaya” to participants
01:30 PM “Seth Pirith” and “Hisa Thel Gema”
03:00 PM Conclusion

Greatly appreciate your attendance and you are encouraged to bring food items to share with others. Please RSVP by April 18th with number of attendees and sign up for food items.

(Click here for event details)

New Year 2018

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 New Year 2018

There will be a special program to invoke blessing for the New Year 2018 on January 01(Monday) 2018 from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm. 
 
Generosity, Morality, Meditation, Observing 08 precepts and Special "Pujava" offering for the 28 Buddhas.  
 
As a special guest teacher, Venerable Guruwala Suseela Thero from Sri Lanka will be taking part in this special program. 
 
 
අවුරුදු දින විශේෂ ආශීර්වාද, දාන,සීල, භාවනා, වැඩසටහන 
අට සිල් සමාදානය සහ අටවිසි බුද්ධ පූජාව, 

 

ජනවාරි 01(සඳුදා), 2018 - උදෑසන 7:00 - ප.ව. 2:00 දක්වා 
 
 

Sri Lankan New Year Celebration 2017

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On behalf of the Kentucky Buddhist Vihara we wish all our friends and well-wishers a very Happy Sinhala and Tamil New Year and cordially invite you to the New Year Festival which will be held on Sunday, April 23rd at at Kentucky Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple (4849 Southside Dr, Louisville, Kentucky, KY 40214) from 9:30 AM. There will be cultural and religious activities and food at this event. Each family is encouraged to bring some food to share with others. Since several activities have to be accommodated within a limited program time, you are kindly requested to be present on time. Your participation at this event is greatly appreciated.

(Click here to sign up for the event)

The agenda is as follows:

Please arrive at 9:30 AM

10:00 AM Lighting the “Magul Pahana” and reciting the “Jathika Geeya”
10:30 AM Observe “Pansil”
11:00 AM Obtaining blessings from elders
11:30 AM “Kiri Ahara Pujawa”
11.45 AM Opening the “Awurudu Mesaya” and offering “Dana” to Sangha
12:30 PM “Awurudu Mesaya” to participants
01:30 PM “Seth Pirith” and “Hisa Thel Gema”
03:00 PM Conclusion

Don’t forget to bring your outfits.

Greatly appreciate your attendance and you are encouraged to bring food items to share with others. Head count is about 30-40. Please RSVP by April 20th with number of attendees and sign up for food items.

(Click here for event details)