The annual Chiang Mai City Pillar Ceremony, or Inthakhin Ceremony, will take place this year from May 20-27, 2009 at Wat Chedi Luang in the center of the old city.
On the first day of the festival, a Buddha image of Phra Chao Fon Saen Ha will be paraded around Chiang Mai city while locals wait along the street side to sprinkle blessed water (Nam Som Poi) to the statue. When the Buddha image returns to Chedi Luang temple, a ritual of flower offerings begins. People in Chiang Mai know Inthakhin ceremony as Tam Boon Khan Dok or Sai Khan Dok. The ceremony name is derived from the ritual of making merit to the city pillar by offering flowers, incense and candles to 32 trays that lay around a Vihara of Inthakhin...
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