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Click here to see the video of
the Rocket Festival in Laos. Video
I: Legend, Video II: Parade and Video III: Dance |
| Video Credits to: LS
Promotion, Laos PDR |
| Go to Rocket Festival Page
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| Water Festival--Kut
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In the fifth
lunar month, Songkran Ceremony (ກຸດສງການ--kudsongkaan or Lao New Year's Festival) should be held. In this
ceremony, people splash water on each other, have a Songkran parade, clean, wash, and pay
homage to the Buddha images, pour lustral water on Buddhist monks' hands , respected
persons, and bring sand to build sand stupas on the temple grounds. |
| To view videos, click
Video I: gend of Sonkaan,
Video II:
Songkaan Festival Credits
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| Vesantrara Story Cloth |
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In the fourth
lunar month, Bun Pha Wet or Bun Mahachaat (ບຸນພະເຫວດ ຫລື ບຸນມະຫາຊາດ--the ceremony of the penultimate life of the Buddha as Pha Wetsandon
(Vessantara Prince or the Festival of the Great Birth) includes the following activities:
a procession of Phaa Phawet (the Vessantara Prince Story Cloth) through town to
the temple; procession of one thousand balls of glutinous rice to the temple; listening to
the non-stop sermon on the Great Birth at the temple (this sermon consists of fourteen
sets of palm leaf manuscripts which have a total of one thousand verses); making merit to
dedicate it to deceased relatives. |
| To view video, click Video:
Vessantrara
Story Cloth Credits to: Dr. John Hartmann Narrated by Dr. Wajuppa
Tossa About Vesantrara Festival or Boun Pha Wet |
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| The Legend of Pou Gneu
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Pou Gneu Gna Gneu, the
tutelary spirits of the city, and Sing Keo Sing Kham, the little lion, dance at Vat Xieng
Thong. The masked dancers wearing costumes of vegetable fibers personify Pou Gneu and Gna
Gneu. According to the local legend of creation, these mythical persons made the earth
appear by stamping on the immense ocean that covered the world. These mystical persons
planted gourd seeds wherefrom man appeared. Thanks to the little lion that they had
captured in the Himalayas and tamed, they eliminated a beast that terrorized the region of
Luang Prabang. As compensation for all their deeds before their deaths, they requested
that the inhabitants make effigies of themselves and the small lion. Every New Year, as
protection against the country's destruction, they should dance at both ends of the town. |
| To view video, click
Video Pou Gneu Gna Gneu
Credits to LS
Promotion, Laos PDR |
| To read about Pou
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