Vesak Day 2024 – Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple, Thailand

Vesak is an important day in Buddhism. Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and passed away on this day. The United Nations has also recognised Vesak Day as a day of international importance in the world. Vesak Day is celebrated at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple in the ancient city of Ayodhya, Thailand. International participants from Sri Lanka, Malysia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar etc., participated.

A Lifetime Ordination Ceremony was organised for monk and Dhana, Sila, meditation programme and, more than twenty thousand Buddhists attended this event to light candles and pray to the Buddha for the Vesak day. This Dhammakaya Buddhist Centre has gained popularity among the Buddhist people of the world for lighting one million lamps, setting a Guinness World Record.

Wat Phra Dhammakaya is best known for its immense size and modern design. The sheer size of the temple makes it impossible to fully explore Wat Phra Dhammakaya in a single day, but for those who have just one day to visit the temple, here’s a quick guide to the activities that you simply must do when visiting the largest temple in Thailand. Probably one of the most obvious activities to partake in when visiting any attraction is to take a tour.

But unlike most Buddhist temples in the world a tour of Wat Phra Dhammakaya can’t efficiently be done on foot. Take a tour through the Buddhist holy city with our state-of-the-art trams, designed to efficiently ferry people around the temple from one location to the other and provide an open air 360-degree view for visiting guests to see the sights of the temple with ease.

Wat Phra Dhammakaya is famous for its massive events and it’s hard to get the full experience of the temple without participating in one. Get the once in a lifetime opportunity to meditate with hundreds of thousands of other people and take part in some of the largest Buddhist ceremonies the world has ever seen.

While this opportunity is only available on special occasions, if you happen to be in the area during a Buddhist holiday it would be a great chance to witness and partake in one of the temple’s astounding trademark mass meditations firsthand.

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