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...
The Naga (the candidate for the ordination) brings the flower bowl to the temple and pays respect to the main Buddha statue. Then the host of the ordination and Lao people will pray to the Buddha and observe the precepts. This photograph was taken in the main hall of Vat Saen Sokharam in 1965. ...
After the host of the ordination and the Lao people finish praying to the Buddha, the Naga (the candidate for the ordination) holds the monk's robes and then offers the flower bunch to the preceptor and prays the ordination chant. This was the ordination ceremony of Phia Hatsakaud (Ajan Thongd...
After the Naga (the candidate for the ordination) offers the monk's robe and the flower bunch to the preceptor, the preceptor will give the monk's robe back to the Naga to hold it and pray the ordination chant. This photograph shows the ordination ceremony of Phia Hatsakaud (Ajan Thongdee) at Va...
When the Naga (the candidate for the ordination) finishes his praying of the ordination chant, the preceptor will preach about purpose and meaning of the ordination. He also will tell five considerations (hair, skin, teeth, finger and toe nails, and tongue) to the Naga. Then he will put the mon...
Two monks are helping the Naga (the candidate for the ordination) to wear the monk's robes. Then the Naga will be ordained to become a novice first before becoming a monk. This was the ordination ceremony of Phia Hatsakaud (Ajan Thongdee) at Vat Saen Sukharam in 1965. The Sangharaj Dhammayana M...