Pattaya Buddhists marked Makha Bucha Day with conventional candle light processions and prayers.
At Wat Chaimongkol Temple, Abbot Phra Anan Thammachaito led the March 6 events, with monks shouting holy verses and followers using alms and making benefit.
The vacation was commemorated with a temple reasonable including cubicles using economical food and items. Then, that night, followers signed up with monks in a triple circumambulation of the preaching hall with candle lights and joss sticks.
Makha Bucha Day marks the anniversary of Lord Buddha offering a preaching on the primary concepts of the Buddhism, called “the Ovadhapatimokha” to 1,250 monks who came together amazingly without any prearranged contract at Weluwan Mahawiharn Temple in the location of Rachakhryha, India on the moon of the 3rd lunar month. Those fundamental concepts are to stop from all wicked, to do kindness, and to clean the mind.
