A day in the life of a Buddhist monk.( write a report)
Use following questions to write the report.
1. Where do they live?
2. What kinds of clothes do they wear?
3. What do they eat?
4. What did they spent most of their day doing?
Answers
- Most of the rest of the world's Buddhists live in East and South Asia, including 13% in Thailand (where 93% of the population is Buddhist) and 9% in Japan (35% Buddhist). Only about 1.4% of the world's Buddhists live in countries outside of Asia. Buddhism in Asia is a matter of both identity and practice.
- Buddhist monks and priests wear clothing that varies greatly, ranging from saffron robes that are worn by monks in Sri Lanka and Thailand to headdresses and elaborate robes worn by the Tibetan lama. The clothing worn by monks shares a basic idea and similar origin, making them recognizable as Buddhist robes.
- they usually fast and starve
- Buddha devoted himself to teaching and attracted hundreds of followers. Eventually, he became reconciled with his father, King Suddhodana. His wife, the devoted Yasodhara, became a nun and disciple. Rahula, his son, became a novice monk at the age of seven and spent the rest of his life with his father.
The typical day of a Buddhist monk, whether young or adult, follows a fixed schedule: wake-up call at 4:30 am (including Saturdays and Sundays); one-hour gathering in the temple to recite mantras; personal hygiene in one of the several fountains scattered around the monastery (there are no showers but they wash themselves with the help of some buckets); at 6.30 everyone stands neatly in a row in front of the gate; once they leave, monks have to go barefoot through the adjacent village to ask for of alms of food and money.
Return to the monastery at 7.30 am; breakfast with whatever was collected in the village (who has received more gives it to others); at 8.30 am school for the novices until 11.30 am, when the second and only meal of the day is served. At the end, every monk eats only two times a day and from 11.30 am onwards he can not touch food until the next day’s breakfast. At 1.30 PM school resumes until 5.30 PM, when everyone meets in the temple to pray the Buddha and by 7 PM they are all in bed.
Each monk is supplied with a wine-colored tunic coat, a lacquer bowl for alms, a razor to cut hair, a piece of soap, and a pair of flip-flops.
As you can see, the life of a Buddhist monk does not does not include much leisure, but he is always smiling and sunny. Most of them are orphans or have been sent to the monastery by parents who are so poor that they are not able to give them a daily meal and an education.
In some of the biggest monasteries preparation of food is provided by volunteers.
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