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what festival is happing today

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does anyone know...
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Yesterday too. Buddhism thing at Wat.
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badneighour wrote:does anyone know...
Possibly the Chams celebrating Eid al-Adha which is about the 4th, I think, but goes on a few days.Image
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Today is no holiday. Yesterday was a holiday and they just know the Khmer name for it . Nobody is able to translate it into English or to explain the meaning :facepalm: .

This is apparently no official holiday - it's not mentioned on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_hol ... n_Cambodia

Perhaps some weird Buddhist celebration and as Cambodians always do - they extend the celebrations for a day or two for no obvious reason (yap, it's soooooooo difficult to stop celebrating)
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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A couple i know had to go to,pagoda yesterday for dead parents. Distinct or unrelated to Pchum Ben.
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In Thailand October 9th is the end of Buddhist "lent" "Ok Phansa & Thot Kathin. Ok Phansa celebrates the end of the Rains Retreat and introduced the Kathin period when, throughout Thailand, the Buddhist laity present monks with new robes and other items deemed necessary for the monkhood’s upkeep during the forthcoming monastic year." Assume it is the same here but could not find anything specific to Cambodia.
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Today is the Buddhist celebration of cheng worsa, marking the end of a three month confinement to the wat where they study Buddhism, chanting and meditation more intensively. Some monks are allowed to leave only to perform their standard duties, begging, marriages, funerals, etc., but by and large it is a stricter regimen devoted to improving their consciousness. It is not a public holiday; the beginning of the three month period is called chol worsa.
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.....and apparently they are also allowed to burn flags in front of embassies.
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Francis, I live in the rural area of Kampong Cham city, where people honor the more traditional customs of their country. It of course helps that there are no embassies at all here. However, I think it is reasonable to assume that there are varying degrees of orthodoxy throughout Cambodia. Also, there were huge crowds along the river yesterday watching the final boat heats to see who would proceed to Phnom Penh for The Water Festival, thus adding to the crowds.
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taabarang wrote: I think it is reasonable to assume that there are varying degrees of orthodoxy throughout Cambodia.
Of course, it is. Every religion has varying degrees of orthodoxy, but in general beating up peasants, burning flags, trampling on Vietnamese hats, taking part in demonstrations, taking part in political activities, producing sex movies, going into brothels, taking drugs.....has absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism.
I remember, a couple of years ago I met this monk and we had a chat. Didn't take long and he asked me whether I could help him to smuggle huge amounts of cigarettes into Europe :facepalm: :o . Especially Cambodian monks seem to have no ethics, and I'm sure that they have no clue about Buddhism.
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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