An important day in Theravāda Buddhist liturgical calendar.
Asalha is a term that refers to the month of Äsala (July). Another name for the month is Āsādha.
- The day of the Buddha’s first sermon
- Key ideas: (i) unsatisfactoriness, (ii) cause of unsatisfactoriness, (iii) freedom from unsatisfactoriness, and (iv) the path leading to the freedom from unsatisfactoriness.
- Known also as the Dhamma Day
- An explanation of craving here
- Nirvāṇa as freedom
- The eightfold path as the Buddhist practice
Liberated ones are happy.
There is always light at the end of the tunnel.
