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Kathina (Buddhism)
Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists in southeast Asia. The season during which a monastery may hold Kathina is one month long, beginning after the full moon of the eleventh month in the Lunar calendar (usually October).
It is a time of giving, to express gratitude to Buddhist monks), and bringing donations to temples, especially new robes for the monks.