Believers In Temples Take To Coffins To Wish For 2018 Luck

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Believers In Temples Take To Coffins To Wish For 2018 Luck

 

A believer on Tuesday in Suphan Buri lies in a coffin to wish for good luck.

 

BANGKOK — Believers Monday flocked to Buddhist temples in hopes of being reborn into a new and better life – by lying inside a coffin on New Year day.

 

Wat Maneepraison, a temple in Tak province’s Mae Sot district is known by believers to be a holy place for such ritual. Clad in white, people on Monday lied inside coffins placed in a row in front of Buddhist monks as they chanted and prayed. This signified symbolic death and rebirth, a new and better life.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/culture/2018/01/02/believers-temples-take-coffins-wish-2018-luck/

 

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-01-02

[gunderhill]

Nuts! Although "brain dead" is the definition of dead so they are probably already there.

Edited January 2, 2018 by gunderhill

[coulson]

I'll bet the donations go to an equally worthwhile cause.

[PatOngo]

Yeah.....ok.....whatever rocks your boat.  

[Misterwhisper]

Anyone who believes that they'll emerge with a "new and better life" after climbing out of a coffin seriously is six pennies short of a shilling. Ah, religion, the opium of the destitute and intellectually challenged... don't you just love it.

[klauskunkel]

15 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Clad in white, people on Monday lied inside coffins placed in a row in front of Buddhist monks as they chanted and prayed. This signified symbolic death and rebirth, a new and better life.

and they get up with a new lottery number

[wirat69]

I will be in my coffin soon enough.... no need to kiss fate!!!

[Bill Miller]

The Boss had me join her in making a donation to a coffin shaped box at a temple a few weeks ago. She explained that "When we die we go in there".
One of those items I don't understand, but nod and smile, as we had just finished a delicious Issan food pot luck and I was too drowsy to pursue it.

 

Edited January 3, 2018 by Bill Miller

[Jonmarleesco]

Obviously ghosts are more real than vampires.

[AGareth2]

 people are dying to get in a coffin