Note 492 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
Reading edition
Joseph Edkins, Chinese Buddhism,² London, 1893, p. 206. In Buddhist monasteries the patimokkha is regularly recited at new moon and full moon. The ceremony is known as posadha (J. J. M. de Groot, “Buddhism in China,” Hastings’s Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iii, 554).