This year Wesak Day, was celebrated on Saturday, 9 May 2009. I brought along my mum to the Siamese temple "Wat Siribunya Maggarama" at Jalan Tambun, Ipoh for early prayer to avoid the crowd.
As a norm in Wesak day, all devotees will bathe the Buddha!
Then we went over to the Tibetian temple "Enlightened Heart Buddhist Centre" at Tambun, Ipoh to pray and to participate in the "Carry Buddha" ceremony.
This is Mum first experience and she was glad that she participated in the Carrying Buddha ceremony. As the ceremony needs to walk around the Budhhist Centre, i'm worry whether Mum can finish the ceremony. However, she did it and commented that even though she was tired but did not felt the Buddha behind her back!
After the ceremony ended, we joined the Devotees for some vegeterian food and wait for the next ceremony scheduled at around 12.00 noon.
There are some devotees offering small bottles of oil for burning to get Buddha's blessing, while some offering candles.
At around 12.00 noon, the ceremony to bring out the South East Asia biggest Buddha Mural (60m by 12m) for the Sun ' bathing' has begun. The mural was heavy and needed a minimum of 20 strong guys to carry it out from the temple to the temple outdoor carpark. Yours truly in one of those strongman to carry the Mural. Children and ladies are prohibited to carry the Mural.
Upon taking out to the carpark, the Mural was slowly rolled out and to soak in the Sun. According to the practise, the Mural will draw power from the Sun once a year. Devotees will run under the mural to receive Buddha's blesssing. After 15 - 20 minutes out in the Sun, the mural was rolled back and carry back to the temple.
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