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Building Sandcastles at the Temple

Posted on April 15, 2010

I have spent most of this afternoon at Wat Chai Mongkol in Samut Prakan taking pictures of their Songkran activities. The second event was making merit by building sand pagodas. In Thai this is called “chedi sai”. According to legend, people make merit by bringing sand back to the temple that they might have inadvertently taken out on …

Written by: Richard Barrow

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