CERES, California (MODESTOBEE) - Devout What's left of the Buddha and other Buddhist masters leave be on ordeal this weekend at the Laotian Buddhist temple in Ceres.
It's an hectic cabaret, meant Chanthavilay Sanouvong, a 47-year-old Ceres resident who teaches children about the Theravada Buddhist tradition and Laotian terminology at the temple.
"It's so very special for the remnants to be current," she meant. "It's my primary time to see them. I reckon they bring healing and good luck. They can adapt the bad in your life to the good."
The remnants, which in the same way as leave travel to Tahoe Metropolis on July 8-10, and Sacramento on July 15-17, limit been on ordeal utter the world for the past two existence.
Laotian monks Ven. Bounma Khamvongsod and Ven. Sackda Mikey Amphavannasouk in the room that leave ordeal remnants (Debbie Noda/Modbee.com).
The voyage is part take, with compassion leave-taking in the direction of the shape of a 500-foot-tall Buddha statue in [the ancient civic while the Buddha passed fashionable concluding paradise] Kushinagar, in the position of Uttar Pradesh, India.
According to a Web site, the statue leave sit atop a throne put up confined by a survive and leave convey temples, agricultural show halls, a museum, library, audio- drawn podium and kindliness services. Expound equally leave be meditation pavilions, water fountains, and calm pools.
In Ceres, an opening demonstrate at 6 p.m. Friday leave convey a teach, prayers, candlelight, and blessings from monks, meant Ven. Bounma Khamvongsod (pictured), a 71-year-old holy man from Laos who has served at the temple for 25 existence. Specified of the remnants, encircled in special down in the dumps ordeal gear, can be to be found on the outdo of a person's head as a deep blessing. More
