Breakfast for the abbot ©photo Roland de Smet

Election Pujee Baan Wat Luang (village headman) 3 by tGENTeneeRke along the Mekong river

Breakfast for the abbot in the house from the village headman elected, as part of a merit making inauguration!

Onderweg naar de tempel photo©Roland de Smet

Joining the music in temple Wat Manee Kort!

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Ritual hand washing! In Hebrew ritus Netilat Yadayim. In the Latin ritus it is a part of the Offertorium: Lavabo manus meas inter innocentes.

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This Mekong Marine policeman is (via the south gate from temple Wat Luang) underway to his work before the start of the ceremony!

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The graduation ceremony starts with 3 clockwise circular walks around the Ordination Hal. On the right side the water ton for the ritual bathing.