Buddhist ceremony [1994]

Bun Sangkhayana (a revision of the Tripitaka with three pulpits) on Het Bun (merit-making) dedicated to H.E. Phummi Vongvichit (1909-1994), Political member of Lao Revolutionary Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Sport and Religious Affairs, Temporary President of Lao P.D.R., President fo the Lao National Front for Reconstruction who died on January 7, 1994, at the age of 85. The ceremony took place at a private residence of H.E. Phummi Vongvichit in Vientiane on January 19, 1994. The important senior monks sitting on the pulpits to give sermons, sitting from the left: Pha Ajan Maha Charun Vaxirarangsi, Abbot of Vat Pho Pha Nao, Vientiane, member of the Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization, Pha Ajan Dr. Maha Vichit Singharat, Abbot of Vat That Luang Neua, Vientiane, President of the Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization and Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thela, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam, President of the Provincial Buddhist Fellowship Organization of Luang Prabang. Chromogenic print.