Tak Bat Dok Mai
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Tak Bat Dok Mai , the Food Offering Festival, is an important event
of Phra Phutthabat district. This impressive merit-making ceremony
is held to coincide with the start of the annual three-month Buddhist
Lent (around June-July) when Buddhist monks must stay in their temples.
In the morning, the people will offer food and candles to Wat Phra
Phutthabat Ratchaworamahawihan, Tambon Khun Khon, Phra Phutthabat
district. They will go to collect a kind of flower called “The
Flower of Buddhist Lent”, to offer to the monks for merit.
The herb-like flower has yellow or white colors and is found at a
hillside only during the Buddhist Lent period in Saraburi. While the
monks come along the passage to bring the flowers to pay homage to
Lord Buddha’s Footprint, people will wait at the stairs with a bowl
of clean water floating Mimusops. They will pour the water onto the
feet of the monks and the novices as a means of cleaning one’s mind. |
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