Sabaidi Pi Mai (Lao for) Happy New Year The Spring festival is celebrated in April per the lunar calendar. It is expressed in the theme of Water Festival, which involves; […]

Boun Phravet Boun Pavet or Boun Phravet or Boun Phra Vetsandon, is the Lao religious holiday that celebrates the parable of Prince Vessantara, the last pre-incarnation of the Buddha. The […]

Buddhist Lent is a period of three lunar months during the rainy season when monks are required to remain in one particular place or Wat (temple). Monks and novices have […]

On the 14th day of the waning moon of the ninth month of the Buddhist calendar, all Laotians annually celebrate the feast of Ho Khao Padabdine, the "Day of the […]

Boun Khao Salak, 15 days after Boun Khao Padap Din, ritual ceremonies happen in the same way except for one thing. This time people number the offerings, and the monks will draw them.  Each […]

Boun Ok Phansa - also Ork Phansa, marks Buddha's return to earth and signifies the end of Buddhist Lent when after three months of retreat, the monks return to their […]

Maha Katin, also Thot Kathin celebrates the end of the Buddhist Lent and a replenishment of the temple monks. Buddhist monks throughout the country are free to move from place […]

Pha That Luang – which literally means ‘great golden stupa’ – is said to have undergone many transformations over the years. Known as a Buddhist stupa nowadays – a hemispherical […]