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  thod kathin

 

Thailand

On a certain, predetermined day money trees (fig.), known in thai as ton phah pah, are taken to the local temple in a thod kathin procession and offered to the monks.

 

The picture above shows a templebound motorcade in Mae Taeng district of Chiang Mai, the one on the right of a packed thod kathin tree placed in Wat Phanan Choeng, on the outskirts of Ayutthaya.

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  thod kathin