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Lae Sang Long During the period mid-March - early April.

 

The importance is the preservation of the original traditions. Allow students to spend time during the semester break to study the Dharma and Buddhist teachings. Parents who send their children to be ordained are a great virtue.

 

Rituals, characteristics of the ordination of the Mae Sot novices are of two types:

1. Khan Lib style (simple ordination) is one who decides to ordain. The godparents would lead the ordained to shave their heads and wear white cloths along with a casserole dish. Go to the temple for the monks to complete the ordination ceremony.

 

2. The ordination of a novice with a Lae Sang Long (Porcelain procession), which will be beautifully dressed for the crystal ball. ceremonial marquee decoration By dressing the children in the style of Sanglong beautifully, when all Sanglong is ready, they will go to receive the blessings from the monks.

 

Then, Sang will try to ride the neck (if the child is small), ride a horse, ride an elephant, ride in a beautifully decorated car, parade around Mae Sot town. The parade will have skits. There are Burmese music accompanying the procession vigorously. Have fun walking along the way with rice and flowers. The Sanglong procession will be taken to the home of the parents or the ordained for self-examination. (Sang Long will not pay homage to the ordained except his parents. Sang Long is considered a prince who has great merit and has a very high dignity) and then parades Sang Long to the city shrine located at the northern market of Mae Sot district, and then parades back to the temple. If you want to parade multiple times, it takes 2 days, if you want to parade one round, it takes 1 day.

 

When they arrive at the temple, they will bring Sang to try to shave their hair. Take a shower and dress in white clothes. and then arrange a side dish with 12 dishes that are indispensable After that, he made a kwan and then performed a novice ordination. The ordination is often ordained in the evening. or early morning Once ordained as a novice, there will be a celebration by offering food to all the new monks and monks of the temple. as well as having a party to attend the event fully listening to the Dharma Therefore, the ceremony was completed.

 

Lae is a large Thai language that means parade, Sang Long, means Luk Kaew, Thai Yai people and Thai people who practice Buddhism in Mae Sot District. They usually ordain their children or grandchildren during the school holidays between March-April every year because they are busy from work and their children do not go to school. They want their children to have the opportunity to study the teachings of the Lord Buddha during the semester break.

 

The ordination ceremony of the glass ball (Lae Sang Long) is It is considered that those who ordained their own son will receive merit or merit up to 7 kalpas, if ordained another son will receive 4 kalpas of merit, and if ordained their own son as a monk, will receive 16 kalpas of merit; if ordained another son as a monk, will receive 8 merit. Eternal, so there are often people with good status, many people like to find boys to ordain. They will be approached by parents who are poor and are considered to create merit together.