Rain Retreat: An arrangement of Buddha statues and candles, 1987

Rain Retreat: An arrangement of Buddha statues and candles, 1987

1987

Buddha Statues and candles arranged for the Rain Retreat. The Vossa, or Rain Retreat, is the three months annual practiced during which the monks are required to remain at the temple in order to concentrate on religious study and the practice of meditation. These photographs depict the Vossa in 1987 in the Greater Lowell area. 

Rain Retreat, photograph 1 of 11, from Cambodian Traditional Crafts and Religious Ceremonies.

View the Rain Retreat group of photographs in order on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/ChigasRainRetreat.

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