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.

 

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-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-01-02

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

Edited January 2, 20188 yr by gunderhill

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

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

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.

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

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

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, 20188 yr by Bill Miller

Obviously ghosts are more real than vampires.

 people are dying to get in a coffin