Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival 2010 – Night Candle Light Procession on Asarnha Bucha Day (26 July 2010)
Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival 2010 – Night Candle Light Procession
Worshippers gather on Asarnha Puja Day and join a candle procession around the temple.It is one of the most important festivals of the Thervada Buddhists which typically takes place in July, on the full moon of the eighth lunar month.
Magnificent Candle Float (Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival 2010)
Night Candle Light Procession (Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival 2010)
Asarnha Puja Day or the Dhamma Day happens one day just before the Buddhist Lent day (Khao Phansa). This day commemorates the first sermon of Buddha to his five first disciples and the founding of the Buddhist sangha. The day is observed by donating offerings to temples and listening to sermons and performing ritual prayers. In Thailand, Asarnha Puja is a government holiday.
Colourful street performance (Ubon Ratchathani Candle 2010)
You want to dance with me…(Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival 2010)
The Candle Festival of Ubon Ratchathani province features a colourful night candle light procession (Wientian ritual ceremony) of ornately-carved traditional beeswax candles of various shapes and sizes in front of Wat Sriubonrattanaram.
Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival 2010
Performers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts (Ubon Ratchathani University)
