Wat Phrathat Pha Ngao, Chiang Rai Province
25 – 26 October 2008
The “Chulakathin Arete Authoritative Ceremony” appearance arete authoritative activities, rituals, and assorted forms of ball all on the aforementioned day. The accomplished accident starts from aurora to dusk (the night of Saturday, 25 October, 2008) and the kathin offerings are presented to the monks on 26 October, 2008. Accompanying activities in this accident include:
Chulakathin Exhibition : Be afraid by the complete action of the assembly of the Chulakathin robes. The accomplished action starts with the acrimonious of cotton, amid it, and spinning until the final action if it is angry from affection into fabric. This is done brief starting from 19.00 hours. There are aswell 9 amazing exhibition zones or khuang in the arctic dialect.
1. Khuang Khan Toke – a archetypal northern-style meal.
2. Khuang for Affection Collecting – acrimonious of affection to aftermath affection fibre.
3. Khuang for Refining – amid the affection seeds from the cotton
4. Khuang for Mixing - to activity the affection to accomplish it loose
5. Khuang for Threading – to accomplish affection into thread
6. Khuang for Aberrant – aberrant the cloth
7. Khuang for Bed-making – acid and bed-making of the actual into fabric
8. Khuang for Dyeing – dyeing the fabric
9. Khuang for Authoritative Great Arete of Chulakathin – alms of kathin robes
The Arete Authoritative Commemoration of Chulakathin
Kathin arete authoritative is a Buddhist ritual that has to be agitated out aural 1 ages starting from the aboriginal crumbling day of the eleventh lunar ages until the fifteenth waxing day of the twelfth lunar ages (the ritual acquire to alone be done during this aeon of time).
Kathin Alms Commemoration : Alms bolt or laying of apparel in foreground of the monks to let them aggregate it to lay by the Sadueng anatomy of the bathrobe shape. The section of bolt would again be tailored into the anatomy required.
An important actual for the kathin commemoration is the “kathin cloth”. The kathin commemoration has to be completed aural a specific period. In the past, bolt was deficient and it had to be alloyed from cotton. The continued action started from the spinning of cotton, putting it into a loom, weaving, cutting, and bed-making till it became a section of bolt to be offered as a kathin cloth. This attitude has been affiliated as a allotment of Thai ability for generations.
Chulakathin is a mini kathin : With the bound time, the commemoration has to be agitated out as bound as possible; thus, it has to be completed aural a day. The commemoration begins with spinning the affection to accomplish cilia until bed-making it into a bathrobe and alms it to the monks.
The alertness of the Chulakathin commemoration begins anon afterwards midnight.
- Collecting affection for weaving; the picker acquire to be a abstinent babe that signifies the abstention of the kathin cloth, which is fabricated of cotton.
- Using the calm affection to be spun and fabricated into thread, accessible for weaving. The actual that would be acclimated for spinning and aberrant has to be of assorted sets to ensure the assembly of the 3 capital pieces of the apparel or at atomic one continued bathrobe to be able to backpack out the commemoration aural a day.
- Acid the alloyed actual in to pieces as designed. It is again anchored on the Sadueng copse anatomy and the pieces are stitched calm as a monk’s robe.
- Dyeing the actual with accustomed dyes from plants as a robe’s colour should be. At present, banal colour is used.
- Drying and alignment it into a set is the endure footfall and again it is accessible for the ceremony. The a lot of important footfall in the alertness is accepting acceptable accoutrement and artisans to backpack out the assembly action and finishing it in time.
Chulakathin Alms Commemoration : The being who is the host of the commemoration has to seek for a acceptable temple. The temple acquire to acquire at atomic 5 monks residing. These monks acquire to be the ones blockage in the temple during the 3-month Buddhist rains retreat. The addict has to do the afterward preparation:
- Booking the kathin is to acquaint the abbot of the temple the ambition of accustomed out the kathin commemoration in that temple. Already the booking is made, the temple would not acquire addition host unless there is a action that the antecedent host is accommodating to acquire anyone abroad accompany as a co-host.
- The host has to adapt all the all-important raw abstracts and added accessories bare in the commemoration afore the action of assembly begins. Skilled weavers are commonly arrive to undertake the aberrant process. Already accepting the baby pieces of the material, they would be stitched calm as a robe. It would again be absolute and ironed as the final process.
- Alms of the Chulakathin bathrobe – the advantageous day for the commemoration commonly avalanche on the fifteenth waxing day of the twelfth lunar month. The commemoration is like a accepted kathin alms in that already all august accessories are completed, participants would accompany them into the temple. They would recite the words of alms to the monks in chorus, and the monks would accept the robe, recite prayers for the alcohol of the asleep ancestors, and achieve the ceremony.
