Extra Sundays

This was a long weekend in Thailand. The holiday was on Monday so that was a an extra Sunday in my book. What was the holiday? Makha Bucha Day of course.

It commemorates two separate events that occurred on the same date 45 years apart, during the Buddha's lifetime 2,500 years ago. The first event was the coming together of 1,250 monks from all locations and directions, to meet and be ordained by the Buddha. This event occurred seven months after the Buddha began his teaching. The second event, which occurred 45 years later, was the Buddha delivering his teachings shortly before his death. Both of these events occurred on the day of the full moon of the third lunar month, a month known in the Buddhist Pali language as 'Makha'.

Regardless and this is not meant to be inappropriate but it's still an extra Sunday.