People offering food and money to monks in the annual Meak Bochea ceremony held at the Oudong mountain
In vans and on trucks, thousands of monks, officials and members of the public made their way toward Odong mountain yesterday morning to commemorate the day that the Buddha announce to his followers he would die in three months.
While Meak Bochea day is little recognized among the public, for the most serious devotees of the religion it remains a key holiday in the Buddhist calendar.
Falling approximately three months before the widely celebrated Visaka Bochea, informally known as Buddha’s Birthday, Meak Bochea commemorates they day that the spiritual leader Gautam Buddha announced his future; the death and accompanying nirvana into which he would enter. [Read full article…]
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