Panyaden students and parents making banana leaf receptables for offerings Jula Khatina in CHiang Rai
Panyaden marks Jula Khatina in Chiang Rai

Year 6 and 7 students, parents and teachers travelled to Chiang Rai between Oct 27-28 to take part in the Jula Khatina ceremony at Venerable Ajahn Jiew’s temple, Wat Pah Yen Boon. This ceremony is a time for lay people to offer cloth for robes to monks at the end of the rains retreat. We worked together with the local sangha to separate the seed from the lint and weave the cotton threads before formally presenting the finished cloth to the monks. A meaningful time of goodwill and cooperation among the community!

Removing seeds from cotton lint, Panyaden students at Jual; Khatina in Chiang Rai Preparing cotton threads for weaving, Panyaden at Jula Khatina in CHiang Rai Weaving cotton threads, Panyaden at Jula Khatina in CHiang Rai

Weaving cotton threads at night, Panyaden at Jula Khatina in Chiang Rai Offerings to monks, Panyaden at Jula Khatina in Chiang Rai Formal offering of cotton cloth to monks, Panyaden at Jula Khatina in Chiang Rai

See more photos of the trip in Panyaden’s blog image gallery.

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