The end of the Buddhist Lent period, a period when many Thai Buddhists abstain from
eating meat, drinking alcohol, and smoking. This is a day when many Thai people will visit a temple,
often their local temple in their birthplace, to pray and to bring offerings. In the evenings, many people
will take part in a wian tian or candlelit circumambulation of the main shrine of the temple. The devotees
walk three times, in a clockwise direction, around the shrine, carrying a candle, three lit incense sticks and
a lotus bud.
Actually, we call it “Wan Awk Pansa” in Thai. Wan Awk Pansa held on the fifteenth, or full moon day, of the eleventh lunar month.