MonkHoney Offerings Ceremony is one of important traditions of Thai-Mon community. It takes place on Buddhist Holy Day, the 15th Date of Waxing Moon of the 10th month of each year. Monk Honey Offerings Ceremony will be as same as ordinary monk food offerings ceremony where rice and foods would be replaced with honey instead. This tradition has been carried forward from generation to generation of Mon people for them to present their strong faith in Buddhism. Each temple usually prepares monks’ alms-bowls at its sermon hall in a monastery for people to pour honey juice into them with a handkerchief under each alms-bowl.
All honey poured by people in those alms-bowls will be collected as an ingredients of Mon traditional medicine. Mon people believe that this honey offerings ceremony is the greatest way to make merit as monks would store such honey for being used when they get sick. Honey is a crucial ingredient of medicine so that Mon people believe this merit making would help fulfill them with prestige and prosperity both in this and next lifetime. Nowadays, this ceremony still exists in several temples. In Nonthaburi, this event takes place at Samosorn Temple.