Consecration: Motu poya during the chanting, 1987

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Consecration: Motu poya during the chanting, 1987

Date

1987

Description

During the course of the evening a tray of special rice called motu poya is carried out and placed on the floor beside the platform on which the monks sat chanting. The grains of rice were spread out on a yellow cloth by one of the nuns who instructed the young girls present to remove the broken grains from the pile. Meanwhile, a yellow umbrella is held over them by a layman.

Consecration of the Buddha Statue, photograph 38 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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Publisher

University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Format

1 photograph; 12.6 x 8.8

Type

Identifier

consecration_38

Citation

Chigas, George, “Consecration: Motu poya during the chanting, 1987,” Southeast Asian Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://umlseada.omeka.net/items/show/431.

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