A busy time on the Thailand events calendar, the Ok Phansa festival is celebrated on the full moon of the 11th lunar month or October and marks the end of the Buddhist Lent. It is a time of ...

To mark the annual three-month Buddhist Lent (Khao Phansa in Thai), Wat Phra Phutthabat Ratchaworamaha Wihan in Saraburi's Phra Phutthabat district will host the tak bat dok mai event next week for ...

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Oak Phansa Festival in Nakhon Phanom province has once again proved a colourful attraction amid “new normal” measures, with the highlight being nighttime processions of ...

Our lives revolve around rites of biological passage at the personal level, and also calendric religio-cultural rituals, manifest in religious, national and international festivals. The religious ...

(THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - One of the most charming festivals celebrated in Thailand is Khao Phansa, or Buddhist Lent Day, which marks the official start of the rainy season. It also marks the ...