That Luang Festival Laos video preview by mickspatz

Pha That Luang is the national symbol and most important religious monument of Laos.
Vientiane's most important festival, Bun That Luang, is held here for three days during
the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (November).
The That Luang Festival is an important Theravada Buddhist holiday for the Lao nation. The site of Pha That Luang is sacred. Monks and laypeople from all over Laos congregate to celebrate the occasion with three days of religious ceremony followed by a week of festivities, day and night. This is a 4 minute preview of aethnological video of the full ceremony from mickspatz. More details and more ethnological videos at www.spatz-darmstadt.de

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Travel & Events

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• Ethnographic Video
• That Luang
• Festival
• traditional celebration
• buddhist monks
• Vientiane
• Laos
• mickspatz
• www.spatz-darmstadt.de

[iphoukwani]

Thank you. must compliment you on the music choice- accompanies the symbol so well- despite so many attacks- a symbol of Resilience and in turn, faithful generosity of the Lao people, inside as well as abroad-

[Intervorn]

Thank you very much! Very precious for a Lao in abroad.