Flamming Heart Thai Katoey
Jai Yen Yen Keep Cool Baby
Thai King leaves Siriraj Hospital
Young Thai School Boy blowing Air Bubbles
Insect eating delight Thailand
Mobile Thai Grocer
Kratae Luk Tung and Muay Thai Kick Boxing
Jungle Food Jungle Eggs Ancient Cooking
Crazy Sale Cart Same same but different Thailand
Ancient Thai Smile
Thai Eyes in deep mourning
Thai Hand Gesture Handsome Beautiful
Happy New Year 2010 Sawasdee Pee Mai
2 young Thai girls pose
Lanna Music Vehicle
New big Buddha statue for Chiang Mai North Thailand
Buddhist monks from the Morn Thean temple (Wat Morn Thean) in ChiangMai, 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.
The so called Temple boys, are no monks or novices,
they are just helpers for the monks.
In Thai they are called “Dek Wat” or “Look Sit”.
Photo: Young Thai temple boy collects money at [...]
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
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Four Noble Truth
The base of the Buddhist philosophy are the Four Noble Truth…
