Wat Punyawanaram

วัดปุญญวนาราม

วัดปุญญวนาราม
Wat Punyawanaram
4490 Aurora Rd., Melbourne, FL 32934
ก่อตั้ง พ.ศ. 2534
ที่ดิน 7.5 เอเคอร์
เจ้าอาวาส : พระมหานิวัฒน์ ขนฺติปาโล
Tel. (321) 255 – 1465
Email : watpunya59@gmail.com, watmelbourne@msn.com
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INVITATION TO SART THAI CEREMONY At Wat Punyawanaram

……Sart Thai day will be celebrated at Wat Punyawanaram on September 17, 2023 this year. Sart Thai day falls in the middle of the traditional Thai year. It occurs on the fifteenth day of the waning moon of the tenth lunar month (sometime during September).

…..The word Sart, derived from the Pali language, means season and in particular autumn or fall. Sart Thai day is also referred to as Memorial Day. This is not Memorial Day as Americans might assume. In Thailand, Sart Thai is a time to remember dead relatives with prayers, Buddhist rituals, and merit making on their behalf.

……One of the traditions is the preparation of a sweet dessert called “Krayasart” or “food for the Sart rite”. This dessert consists of rice, beans, peanuts, coconut, sesame, and sugar. Lay people would bring “Krayasart” to the Temple to offer to the monks. After the offering, water was poured in dedication to dead ancestors in order to earn merit for them. People believed that the offering of “Krayasart” would mean that their ancestors would have food to eat and that the person would be blessed.