The 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Enshrinement of Thewa Suwan Phrommasutithep and Tao Kuwera Thepbut, and the Auspicious Metal-Pouring Rite, B.E. 2567
Date
15 July 2024
A photo record of the morning rite celebrating the 35th anniversary of the enshrinement of Thewa Suwan Phrommasutithep and Tao Kuwera Thepbut, together with the afternoon metal-pouring rite for the casting of Buddha images — Monday 15 July B.E. 2567 (2024) at Wat Chulamanee.
Offerings
- Fruit set, large1,000 ฿
- Fruit set, small500 ฿
- Longevity-peach (siu thao) set, large1,000 ฿
- Longevity-peach (siu thao) set, small500 ฿
- Rice100 ฿
- Drinking water40 ฿
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The rite celebrating the 35th anniversary of the enshrinement of Thewa Suwan Phrommasutithep and Tao Kuwera Thepbut was held on Monday 15 July B.E. 2567 (2024) at Wat Chulamanee, Bang Chang Subdistrict, Amphawa District, Samut Songkhram Province. The event banner set the propitiation and anniversary rite at 09.09 and the metal-pouring rite at 14.30 on the same day.
According to the event banner, the auspicious metal-pouring rite that day was for the casting of:
Phra Phuttha Metta of Bodh Gaya (replica), lap width 30 inches
Luang Pho To of Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai (replica), lap width 39 inches
Luang Pho Thong of Wat Khao Takhrao (replica), lap width 39 inches
The Asīti Mahāsāvaka (the eighty great disciples), first occasion, 14 figures
An image of Thewa Suwan Phrommasutithep at life size
The first half of this set covers the morning rite: several hundred sets of offerings — rice, drinking water, fruit and longevity peaches — laid out along the long tables; the white canopies set with wooden tablets inscribed in Khom script; the brahmin officiating at the propitiation table; and the senior monk scattering flowers and sprinkling lustral water along the entire length of the tables while rain fell lightly through the ceremony.
The second half covers the afternoon rite: the sacred metal — sheets of gold, silver and rose gold together with takrut scrolls; the lowering of that metal into a ladle bound with the sacred cord and its melting in a crucible over a charcoal furnace; the carrying of the crucible of molten metal from the furnace; and the senior monks sprinkling lustral water while lay devotees scattered gilded flowers over the rows of plaster moulds set out across the temple ground.
The sponsors’ cards visible in the photographs read “sponsor for the casting of one arahant disciple figure, 100,000 baht”, each with a number and the name of the disciple — for example 3. Phra Bhaddiya Thera, 4. Phra Mahānāma Thera, 5. Phra Assaji Thera, 6. Phra Asabha Thera and 23. Phra Upasīva Thera.