Making Merit En Masse: Giving Alms to 12,600 Monks in Bangkok

Making Merit En Masse: Giving Alms to 12,600 Monks in Bangkok on Visakha Bucha Day. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Shades of saffron, mustard and tangerine stretched as far as our eyes could see – the robes of some 12,600 Buddhist monks from southern Thailand who travelled by bus to Bangkok to attend the mass alms giving to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day*. The sun may still have been low in the sky when we got … Read more