I know we all just done with bon Pchum Ben, one of the major religious event. This month, October, we have another one call Bon Kathin. Bon Kathin is basically giving monk's clothes. These clothes consist of three layers, inner layer (sarong and shirt), outer layer (chipor), and multi-layer which is use to wrap around the body (Sangadei). Both the giver (civilian) and the receiver (monk) will all receive good karma and merits. I think this is the only time where monks is able to receive good karma and merit. What kind of good karma and merit will Giver and Receiver get? The Giver will get intelligence, beauty, well respected title with abundance of wealth, and monkhood in their last lives and will last five earth life times. As for the Receiver, they will get good karma and merits in term of five privileges. 1. Can leave the temple without notifying the head of the monk. 2) Do not need to bring upper Sangadei with them. 3) can request any food's name to cook from civilian but not meat??? (i don't understand about the meat part). Maybe it meant the monks cannot mention what kind of meat they preferred. 4) keep all robe 5) and finally kept all robe/clothes to themselves for later use. These privileges last for five months from Bon Kathin.
In my city, monk is hosting next weekend, Oct 10-12
Join your Temple for our Khmer culture and spread the word out to our Khmer community. So we all can get good karma and merit but also for the monks to get their blessing too. Do not worry about this/that Temple/Monks is bad or good. They are all just human-being like us and do make mistake. Go with good heart and will receive good merit both for you, your loves one, your decease family, relative, and friend. But at the same time, the monks will also get a blessing from US as mention above.
Keep our culture alive for the x-generation so that when foreigner ask, we all can explain to them. It would be a shame if we do not know our own root and culture. I, myself, is one of that person too. But we all learn from each other little by little and hoping that our kid will follow us.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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In my city, monk is hosting next weekend, Oct 10-12
Join your Temple for our Khmer culture and spread the word out to our Khmer community. So we all can get good karma and merit but also for the monks to get their blessing too. Do not worry about this/that Temple/Monks is bad or good. They are all just human-being like us and do make mistake. Go with good heart and will receive good merit both for you, your loves one, your decease family, relative, and friend. But at the same time, the monks will also get a blessing from US as mention above.
Keep our culture alive for the x-generation so that when foreigner ask, we all can explain to them. It would be a shame if we do not know our own root and culture. I, myself, is one of that person too. But we all learn from each other little by little and hoping that our kid will follow us.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
For more infor:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592363590801418.1073741851.274700422567738&type=1
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and walk around the Temple 3x. It was fun though. Ppl dancing "chey yam". having a great time and at same time being blessed 
