Sathou Nyai Khamchan Virachitta Mahathera (Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam) is posing before going to chant Parittamongkhoun (a stanza of victory) at Sakula Stationery at Ban Viengkeo, Luang Prabang, in 1985. In the background Sathou Nyai Khamphan Phatthathammo, Abbot of Vat Khoum Khouang (right) an...
Senior monks of Luang Prabang, who were invited to chant Parittamongkhoun (a stanza of victory) at Sakula Stationery at Ban Viengkeo, Luang Prabang in 1985. Left to right: an anonymous senior monk, Sathou Nyai Khammanh Manivangso (Abbot of Vat Vixoun), Sathou Nyai Onta Santapanyo (Abbot of Vat M...
Sathou Nyai Khamchan Virachitta Mahathera - Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam (right) and Sathou Phor Ouan Aphakaro from France (left) are posing in a Hot Spring in Laa District, Oumdomxay Province. Lao people from Luang Prabang took them for a tour. This photograph was taken on the 12th of May 2005. ...
Left to right: Sathou Phor Ouan Aphakaro from France, Sathou Nyai Khamchan Virachitta Mahathera (Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam) and Dr. Khamphoui of Ban Vat Saen (who was a special doctor for Sathou Nyai Khamchan) are posing in the Cultural Park of Thai Lue Ethnic Group in Chieng Houng. The backgro...
A memorial visit to Vat Ban Ou Neua, Yot Ou District, Phongsaly Province in May 2005. Left to right: Sathou Phor Ouan Aphakaro from France, Sathou Nyai Khamchan Virachitta Mahathera (Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam) and Sathou Luang (Abbot of Vat Ban Ou Neua). This photograph was taken at Vat Ban Ou ...
Sathou Nyai Khamchan Virachitta Mahathera - Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam (right) and Sathou Phor Ouan Aphakaro from France (left) are posing in front of a sculpture of mother and children of White Pumpkin (where the motherland of human beings and animals is) in the Cultural Park of Thai Lue Ethnic...
The cremation ceremony of King Sisavangvong at That Luang Field, Luang Prabang, on the 29th of October, 1962. This photograph shows the committee of the cremation ceremony moving the urn for the king's coffin from the chariot to the funeral pyre. The urn for the king's coffin now is kept in the ...
A photograph of anynomous monks and new novices which was taken in front of the coffin of Saen Mai Pan in the 1960s. Original material consists of: silver gelatine DOP print
Phia Hatsakuat (Ajan Thongdee) wearing white robes. He was the Naga (the candidate for the ordination), holding a flower bowl before having the ordination ceremony in the main hall of Vat Saen Sukharam in 1965. For the ordination ceremony, the one who will have the ordination to become a monk in...