![]() ![]() Bring (or ask your guide to bring) a packet of food for you to give to one of the monks, who will receive it with a chant. At Wat Sri Soda, as across the region, this quest can manifest in spectacular ways-remember Jayavarman VII and his prolific temple-building?-but it is often done in a more quiet, quotidian fashion, such as donating an offering of food to one’s local temple. Even Thai men who aren’t active-duty monks try, in small ways, to “make merit” for themselves. ![]() Each country in Asia has its own relationship to religion, of course, but it’s fair to say that the Thai relationship to Buddhism is unusually vivid.
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