‘Kathin Chibar Dan’ starts amid festivity

‘Kathin Chibar Dan’, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist people in Chitagong Hill Tracts (CHT), started yesterday at Rajban Bihar in the district town, with great enthusiasm.  A two-day-long programme including Pancha Shila prayers by weavers, making threads by spinning wheels, sewing of chibar (robes),  donation of chibars to the monks and candle lighting  were taken. The entire town wore a festive look yesterday. Thousands of people, mostly Buddhist devotees from three hill districts—-Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagra
chhari gathered in and around the Rajban Bihar. Kathin Chibar Dan means ‘Offering of difficult monk robe’.

Kathin Chibar Dan starts amid festivity

Kathin Chibar Dan, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist people in Chitagong Hill Tracts (CHT), started yesterday at Rajban Bihar in the district town, with great enthusiasm. A two-day-long programme including Pancha Shila prayers by weavers, making threads by spinning wheels, sewing of chibar (robes), donation of chibars to the monks and candle lighting were taken. The entire town wore a festive look yesterday. Thousands of people, mostly Buddhist devotees from three hill districts-Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagra chhari gathered in and around the Rajban Bihar. Kathin Chibar Dan means Offering of difficult monk robe.