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For Buddhism and its followers the Buddhist Lent has the following Important characteristics:
1. Buddhist monks who have been travelling from place to place have to take up shelter in a particular place, according to Lord Buddha's discipline.
2. Buddhist monks who stay at a particular place for a length of time shall teach the young boys who wish to be ordained in order to study the Buddhist Doctrine, and preach to the lay followers.
3. During the Buddhist Lent lay follows refrain from bad actions in particular drinking alcohol, taking drugs or leading an inappropriate life.
4. During the Buddhist Lent, the laymen acquire merit, observe five or eight precepts , listen to sermons and sit in meditation in temples.
Buddhist Lent covers a good part of the rainy season and lasts three lunar months. In Thailand, Buddhist monks resolve to stay in a temple of their choice and will not take an abode in an other temple until the Lent is over.
