Happy New Year Thailand [travel]
[Songkran Holiday: April 13 to 15]
The Songkran festival is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South Asia as well as throughout the Southeast Asian countries.
Some of you may be familiar with the word, "Songkran.(สงกรานต์)" It is the national level holiday (statutory holiday), in which almost everyone will be participating in splashing water one and another. To illustrate, the mass of people rallying around the central Bangkok, holding some wet powders or water guns to play with, walking some miles until they meet dead end.
The Songkran festival is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South Asia as well as throughout the Southeast Asian countries.
Some of you may be familiar with the word, "Songkran.(สงกรานต์)" It is the national level holiday (statutory holiday), in which almost everyone will be participating in splashing water one and another. To illustrate, the mass of people rallying around the central Bangkok, holding some wet powders or water guns to play with, walking some miles until they meet dead end.
Insight into Thai Buddhism [travel]
[History of Thai Theravada Buddhism]
Buddhism in Thailand is mostly of the Theravada influence. Nearly 95% of Thailand's population is Buddhist of the Theravada school, even though Buddhism in Thailand has become integrated with folk beliefs, and as well as some Chinese religions from the large Thai-Chinese population.
Buddhist temples in Thailand are characterised by tall golden stupas; the Buddhist architecture in Thailand is similar to that in other Southeast Asian countries. Particularly Cambodia and Laos, with which Thailand shares cultural and historical heritage.
The history of Buddhism in Thailand, around the 13th to the 19th century, are still remain mystery, in part because few historical records or religious texts survived after the Burmese destruction of Ayutthaya (the capital city of the kingdom) in 1767.
