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Wat Ta Kien

เผยแพร่:   โดย: MGR Online

Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees offering prayers as they sit in coffins at the end of a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault
Ever since monks first began performing this ritual in 2008, dozens of people have been coming each day to Wat Ta Kien temple, undergoing a symbolic death as they're looking for the chance to start again.

The ceremony - that involves lying down in a coffin draped over by a bright pink sheet which is then removed to symbolise death and rebirth in a ritual that lasts barely a minute - aims to rid participants of bad karma and help reconcile them to the inevitability of death.
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees listening to prayers with sacred ropes wrapped around their heads at the start of a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archabault
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees offering prayers as they sit in coffins during a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows Buddhist monks draping a pink sheet over members of a family lying in a large coffin during a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees offering prayers as they stand in coffins during a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO / Christophe Archambault
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees reciting prayers with sacred ropes wrapped around their heads at the start of a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees lying in coffins as Buddhist monks drape a pink sheet over during a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault
Nonthaburi, THAILAND: This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees listening to prayers with sacred ropes wrapped around their heads at the start of a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO/Christophe Archambault
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