Consecration: People return inside to pray at the altar, 1987

Consecration: People return inside to pray at the altar, 1987

1987

The laity have returned inside. The achar kneel before the altar to pray. The statue will not be observed as an image of the Buddha or prayed to until after the ceremony.

Consecration of the Buddha Statue, photograph 15 of 45, from Cambodian Traditional Crafts and Religious Ceremonies.

View the Consecration group of photographs in order on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/BuddhaConcecration.

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