Building Phrasai Sand Chedis on Songkran
Freitag, April 18th, 2008At the second day of the Songkran Festival, called “Wan Nao”,
many Thai Buddhists are going to the tempel and are building sand chedis.
Young Thai Buddhist Monks
Sonntag, März 30th, 2008Many Thai kids are living for a while in a buddhist temple.
The young, buddhist novices have to follow about 10 strikt rules,
while “full” monks have to notice 227 and nuns 311 rules.
Religion in Thailand
Samstag, März 29th, 2008
In Thailand most of the Thai people ( 94%) believe in Theravada Buddhism.
Mostly in South Thailand, there are 4% Thai Muslims.
0,6% Christians .
0,1% (mostly Indians) believe in the Hindu religion
Just about 0,4% don´t have a confession.
Foto: Thai Buddha im Wat (Tempel) Suan Dok - Chiang Mai/Nordthailand
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