On  18 October 2014, Ambassador Vimon Kidchob presided over the Offering Ceremony of the Royal Kathina Robes, graciously bestowed by His Majesty the King Bhumibol of Thailand, to Watpa Copenhagen. The ceremony was attended by officials of the Royal Thai Embassy as well as Thai and foreign Buddhists in Denmark, Sweden and Germany.

 

            Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists. The season during which a monastery may hold a Kathina festival 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, for the laity to express gratitude to monks. Lay Buddhists bring donations to temples, especially new robes for the monks.