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Thousands throng temple to celebrate Wesak Day
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5/22/2024
Worshippers gathered at the Thai Buddhist Chetawan Temple as early as 6am on Wednesday (May 22) to celebrate Wesak Day.
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The smell of joss sticks and burning incense greeted devotees at the Thai Buddhist Chetavan
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Temple on Wednesday. Thousands gathered as early as 6 a.m. at the temple for Vesak Day.
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They performed rituals and sought blessings by lighting candles fashioned as lotus flowers
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and oil lamps, offering flowers and bathing statues of Buddha.
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We served more people, a lot of people coming and then we do the Buddha bath and then blessing,
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many many more.
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Precession, we got precession early morning. We start from morning chanting 6.30, afterwards
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on 11, we giving, I'm giving, it's called dana, dana, giving, evening chanting at 8 p.m.
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After evening chanting, we do precession around the temple, yes, at 9 p.m.
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Vesak is the most important festival in the Buddhist calendar. It marks the important
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events, the birth, enlightenment and passing of the religion's founder, Siddhartha Gautama.
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Vesak Day emphasizes the importance of Buddhist adherence, embracing their faith and living
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true to their beliefs.
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It's very beautiful, it's very peaceful here. We do come sometimes like once in a while.
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So today, though there's a lot of people, but it's really peaceful. I really like the
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way Buddhist is. It's a very interesting path to follow and I would like to teach my children
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on this path, show them about the goodness of Buddha. That's why I bring them, it's actually
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to expose them to Buddhism, who is Buddha and all that.
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I usually went to Thai temple when I was in Thailand, so when I stay in KL, I just would
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like to keep the routine. So yeah, I came here and I felt good every time that I make
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merit, after I make merit, something like that.
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Everything is very authentic here, actually, the ceremony and everything that they provided
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here. So what you can find in Thailand is actually provided here as well, so not different
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at all.
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The reason that we came here is because it's recognized as a big Buddhist day. So we feel
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like we want to keep this routine and feel blessed in this day.
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I've been coming to this place for quite some time because I stayed in Section 14 and I
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used to frequent this place every year. I'm a Hindu, but I'm a firm believer in all religions.
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To me, all gods are the same. To me, I would like to follow the Buddhism style of being
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peaceful, harmony and never do any harm to anybody. I always believe in this. Mankind
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has to be like that. Let's treat everybody equal and also respect nature.
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