Six purification days
(Redirected from 六齋日)
Please consider making little donation to help us expand the encyclopedia and pay for our server costs because as a Buddhist monk I don't have money and struggling to pay the server costs. Enjoy your readings here and have a wonderful day!
or card
PLEASE HELP
EVERY LITTLE DONATION MATTERS
six purification days (六齋日). On the 8th, 14th, 15th, 23rd, 29th, and 30th day of each lunar month, lay Buddhists can accept and observe the eight precepts, abstaining from committing sins that are evil by nature and from sensory gratification. The Sanskrit word word poṣadha (齋) means fasting for purification. However, not knowing the meaning of poṣadha, some lay Buddhists assign these six days for eating vegetarian meals.