Buddhist ceremony [1990s]

Kathin (annual or post-retreat robe) presentation ceremony at Sim of Vat Pak Khan Khammungkhun, under the ceremonial chairman of Pha Khamchan Virachitta Thera, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam. This photograph represents a chief-donor for Kathin robe (the lay woman who holds the Kathin robe) and lay people say words of offering for the Kathin robe before offering to Pha Khamchan who is the ceremonial chairman to do the Buddhist ceremony. The lay woman sitting on the right of the lay woman who holds the Kathin robe is Mrs. Phia Khamxao Phoumavong, elder sister of Pha Khamchan. Chromogenic print.