Painter balances on a bamboo scaffold Thailand
Young Thai Boy Scouts cleaning up the City
Lamyai Longan Dimocarpus longan
Drugs Warning Thailand
Huay Tung Tao Chiang Mai Beach Thailand
Phuket News Phuketindex Thailand Internet Magazine
Just a Moment Distortion of Time Thailand
Ricefield Radio Thailand
Bodyslam & Siriporn Umpaipong Kid Hod
National Reconciliation Video censored Thailand
Korat Post Isaan Online News Thailand
Take a Shower Thailand
Mama Instant Noodle Soup Thailand
Radio Bangkok Thailand Internet Radio
The Mysterious White Elephant Thailand
New big Buddha statue for Chiang Mai North Thailand
Buddhist monks from the Morn Thean temple (Wat Morn Thean) in Chiang Mai, North Thailand
are sitting on a shaky bamboo scaffolding to work on the new big Buddha statue.
Young Thai boy is selling buddhist offerings
At Makha Bucha Buddha Day we met this young Thai boy,
who was selling the so called triple buddhist offerings
for the Wat Chedi Luang (Chedi Luang temple) in Chiang Mai/North Thailand.
Young buddhist monks cleaning the temple Thailand
In a buddhist Thai temple is also a lot of work to do for the monks.
Cleaning up the temple has mostly be done by the young monks and novices…
Lord Ganesh Statue Thailand
Thailand is a buddhist country,
but the frontiers between Buddhism and Hinduism are fluent
and Hindu Gods as Rama, Shiva, Brahma, Hanuman and Ganesha (Ganesh)
are highly enshrined in Thailand.
Young Thai Temple Boy Collects Money
While buddhist monks and nuns are not allowed to touch or use money,
young temple boys are helping to collect money for the temples.
Young Buddhist Monk From Thailand
Most of the young Thai boys and men spending a temporary time (mostly 3 month)
as a buddhist monk in a temple in Thailand…
Buddha Tattoo – Sacred Tattoo
Many Thais are very superstitious and believe in a lot of odd things,
which are out of the common for farangs (foreigners).
Pay Respect to Buddha-Wai Phra in Thailand
Whenever Thaipeople are passing a “holy place” like Buddha statues
they paying respect to them and are merit-making (tham boon/tam boon).
Building Phrasai Sand Chedis on Songkran
At 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
Many 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
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
Four Noble Truth
The base of the Buddhist philosophy are the Four Noble Truth…
