Phuket Buddhists mark Tenth Lunar Month Festival with offerings to monks, hungry ghosts

Phuket Buddhists mark Tenth Lunar Month Festival with offerings to monks, hungry ghosts

Eakkapop Thongtub

The “Preat” figures are made to remind children and all Buddhists what can happen if they live a life of sin and to encourage them to build up their good karma to avoid a similar fate.

PHUKET: Phuket Buddhists this morning (Sept 20) took part in the Tenth Lunar Month Festival in order to honour and pay respect to their ancestors.

The Tenth Lunar Month Festival, similar in many respects to Phuket’s Chinese derived Por Tor Festival, involves merit-making to show respect and gratitude to deceased ancestors.

Legend has it that during the 10th lunar month, the souls of deceased ancestors who have not yet been reincarnated are freed from the other world to visit their relatives in the human world.

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