The past three Sundays were all Kathina events: first at IIMC in Redmond, then at Wat Buddha in Turner, and today at LP Chalee Hermitage in Albany. Kathina is an annual Buddhist festival held at the end of the three-month rain retreat.   Growing up in a Theravada country, I must shamefully admit that I had never actually attended a Kathina, not until these past three weeks, in a country ten thousand miles away from my birthplace. Back then, when family or friends asked whethe

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