Pinabaht at Lunas

I've never spent so many hours at the Buddhist Hermitage Lunas before. Yesterday must've been a record. My family arrived there at 9.20am because we were told that the pinabaht for the resident monks would begin soon afterwards.

Normally at Buddhist temples here, devotees would come daily to offer food to the monks so that the latter do not need to go looking for food. However, the pinabaht ceremony at the hermitage, which is organised regularly, is symbolised by the monks coming out in procession to meet the devotees who line up to place the rice in the monks' bowls. It's all very symbolic.

Pagoda at the Buddhist Hermitage Lunas. Cllear blue skies when we arrived.

Childen from the Sunday School taking part in the pinabaht ceremony.

And this is the turn of the adults.

By the time we departed at about 12.30pm, the skies had turned threatening.