Buddhist ceremony [1996]

Het Bun (merit-making ceremony) on the 76th Birthday Celebration of Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thela (holds a bowl), Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam at the Sim of Vat Saen Sukharam on October 22, 1996. This photograph represents Pha Khamchan gives money to the Provincial Hospital of Luang Prabang, receives by a director of the hospital which has Pha Ajan Bunmi (holds a microphone), Abbot of Vat Xiang Vae, Vientiane calls the names of receivers to receive money. Money offered by monks, novices and lay people to Pha Khamchan on his birthday celebration each year, after the celebration Pha Khamchan has announced to the Sangha and lay people who participate in the celebration that the money will be offered to monasteries which are being restored and the left will be given to hospitals and schools. Chromogenic print.