Portrait | Guests | Offering | Feast

Final Offering | Rocket | Ignition | Fire

A Monk's Funeral Main
The Thailand Galleries Main

 
As guests arrive and make donations to the temple, a monk chants their names over a loudspeaker. These older ladies sit in attendance (cooled by large fans, luckily).
A band of musicians has also been hired to play for the crowd--by now swelling to a few hundred.

 

Portrait | Guests | Offering | Feast

Final Offering | Rocket | Ignition | Fire

A Monk's Funeral Main
The Thailand Galleries Main