On 3 August 2025, Wat Phra Dhammakaya organized an event of World Meditation Day. The morning session started with the laypeople’s chanting, mass meditation, sustenance offering to the Buddha and lunch offering to monastic community and the afternoon session was the congratulatory ceremony for 72 monks and 2 laywomen, achieving the 9th level of Pali studies in 2025. Most Venerable Phrapromwachirapanyajarn (Pali Scholar of Level 9), abbot of Wat Ratcha Orasaram and head of the 8th Overseas Dhammaduta Bhikkhus Group presided over this ceremony. Additionally, the temple also presented trophies, scholarships and educational tools to 83 outstanding Pali schools. In this event, there were the necessity offering to 2,000 temples throughout Thailand, the 180th necessity offering to 323 southern temples for its 21st year and the 143rd scholarship presentation to teachers in the four southern provinces ( Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and the four districts of Songkhla ) for its 18th year. This event was attended by managerial senior monks and monks from Thailand and international monastic communities from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Lao, Vietnam, Myanmar, China (Xishuangbanna in the south of Yunnan province), USA and European Union.
World Meditation Day is observed annually on August 6th because of the unforgettable event of bombing Hiroshima in 1945 during the World War II, causing the biggest disaster to human beings in the world history and the effort to create worldwide peace by establishing an organization of peace, called The United Nations (UN). Then the World Fellowship of Buddhist Youth (WFBY) proposed to declare the August 6th as “World Meditation Day” in 1988 because it realized the importance of meditation as the way of supporting the occurrence of world peace. The inner peace of individuals would definitely bring about the outer peace or the world peace.
