SOME 1,000 Buddhist devotees carrying bags of vegetarian food offered alms to about 60 monks and nuns, a practice known as pindapata, at the first ever grand assembly of forest monks in Penang.
GEORGE TOWN: Despite the rain, approximately 1,000 people turned up at the Padang Polo here to offer alms to Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday (June 26) morning.
GEORGE TOWN: To relive the time when Gotama Buddha and his disciples walked thousands of kilometres up and down the Ganges River basin to share their way to the end of suffering, a group of two Buddhist monks of the Theravada tradition and 18 lay devotees went on a long journey on foot spanning more than three months.