Hi everyone, anyone who are interested to 'Tam Boon' or 'making merit' to do some donation for Luang Pu Eaum(monk name) from Sarmnak Song Taling Chan(temple name) located at Southern part of Thailand - Phattalung Province for the Kathin Festival on 12th October B.E.2557 (2014). Please kindly contact me.
各位亲爱的佛友们大家好，如果你们想要做善事或乐捐给隆普恩，三那宋达另赞庙宇位于泰南巴达隆。［捐和尚袈裟日］会在十月十二日佛年二五五七(二零一四年)当天举行。想知道跟详细的话可以向我讯问。
Anumotana Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!
谢谢大家，感恩，功德无量！
Kathin Festival
The Thord Gathin Festival or Thod Kathin (Thai: ทอดกฐิน) is a traditional Buddhist festival celebrated in Isan (Northeast Thailand), Cambodia andLaos. Colorful parades and offering ceremonies at the end of monks´ retreat at local temples. On Owk-Pansa day of the full moon, villagers and city dwellers will go to their local temple for prayers and paying respect to the sacred relicts. Owk-Pansa is also the beginning of a 30-day period of merit making which affords a special opportunity for prayers to Buddha and for the presentation of gifts to the monks for preserving the faith. This thirty-day span of merit making and religious gift giving is referred to as Thord Pha Gathin.
Thord Gathin takes its name from the "laying down" of new robes to the monks. The offering of new, saffron robes to the monks is particularly meritorious and important . Other gifts to the monks may include basic utensils, toiletries, writing materials and food .
All gift giving are acts of appreciation and gratitude to the monks individuals or community groups (such as a village) may perform them. Many villagers combine efforts by collecting money donations for the maintenance of their local temple. Such donations are vividly arranged on a "money tree" which looks rather like a colorful Christmas tree bedecked with 20, 50 and 100 baht notes as the "foliage". The money tree is ceremoniously paraded to the temple, led by a team of lively drummers and musicians, with the villagers carrying their own individual gifts on beautiful trays, bringing up the rear. In this way at Thord Gathin, the lay-people of Thailand reaffirm their faith and, in a joyous fashion, bring gifts to Buddha and his servants.
(Some information about Kathin Festival from Wikipedia.)
