Buddhists across Thailand go to temples to make merit and offer alms on Buddhist Lent Day.

Lively! Villagers visit temples to make merit during the Buddhist Lent holiday. At Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan in Chiang Mai, tourists flock to pay homage and ask for blessings from the sacred objects in the temple. During the Buddhist Lent holiday, many people and tourists traveled to make merit, offer alms, and pay homage to the sacred objects at the temple of Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan, a royal temple in Chiang Mai Province. They also joined the candlelight procession around the tallest pagoda in Lanna. Meanwhile, Phra Khru Od led monks and novices to help wash and clean vegetables that were distributed to people and tourists who came to make merit and travel. There were 500 kilograms of cucumbers, 8 tons of tomatoes, and 2.5 tons of Chinese cabbage, or 2,500 kilograms, which were purchased from villagers in Omkoi District. They were cleaned, sorted into bags, placed on tables, and allowed to be taken home to cook, totaling 11 tons. Phuket holds first sea procession of Phra Sivali Back in Phuket yesterday , Buddhists from Ban Tha Chat Chai and Ban Suan Maphrao, Tambon Mai Khao, Amphoe Thalang, Phuket Province, set up a long-tail boat procession at the sea in front of Wat Tha Chat Chai to carry Phra Sivali by sea, which is considered the first time in Phuket Province, to be enshrined at the Barami Tham Monastery, Ban Dan Yid. The procession departed from Wat Tha Chat Chai Pier, the procession of Phra Sivali, along with the procession of the candle festival and the meditation by sea to dedicate to all living things and marine animals, to Ban Dan Yid, heading to the Barami Tham Monastery, Ban Suan Maphrao or Soi Dan Yid. After that, the monks chanted Buddhist prayers, celebrated the alms-giving ceremony and made a united phaapaa offering at the Barami Tham Foundation, Ban Suan Maphrao, 'Dan Yid'. Non Sang District, Nong Bua Lamphu Province cremates the body of 'Luang Ta Lin' At Wat Sriboonruangbutaram, Non Sang District, Nong Bua Lamphu Province, monks moved the body of Luang Talin down from the sermon hall, th e temporary crematorium (to the funeral pyre) before taking the body around the funeral pyre and placing it on the funeral pyre. 75 monks considered the funeral pyre. The provincial ecclesiastical chief presented the funeral pyre. Phra Khru Si Pariyatti Worakorn, the ecclesiastical chief of Non Sang District, who had a high level of ordination, considered the funeral pyre. Before the blazing flames separated the body into the elements of earth, water, wind, and fire, Rishi Kesa Kaew led the Buddhists in asking for forgiveness from Luang Ta for the last time. Source: Thai News Agency