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A Comparative Study of Thai and
Balinese Temple Festival Dress
Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace
The famous Thai Buddhist Temple in Bangkok, Thailand
Mother Temple of Besakih on the slopes of Mount Agung
The famous Balinese Hindu Temple in eastern Bali, Indonesia
Associate Professor Jaruphan Supprung
Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts
Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
Aims of this Qualitative Research
 To study Thai Buddhist and Balinese
Hindu temple festivals
 To compare Thai Buddhist temple
festivals dress with Balinese Hindu
temple festivals dress
 To create the knowledge which can be
useful for Thai attitudes and cultural
perceptions, especially for Thai children
and youth
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Songkran Festival: Thai traditional New Year
(starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days)
Give alms to monks
Build sand pagodas
Release birds & fishes
Pour scented water
on Buddha image
Make merit to ancestors Pour scented water on
their elders’ hand
Pour scented water/
on each other
Take part in folk plays
2 Buddhist Lent Festival: 3 months Lent in rainy season
(starts on the first day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month)
Thai Buddhist people present large candles and bathing robes to Buddhist monks
Large candle procession
Present bathing robes to monks
Present large candles to monks
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Sart Thai Festival: On the 15th waning (no moon)
day of the tenth lunar month
Sart Thai Day
is the day of
making merit
traditions and
the honoring
Ghosts and
Ancestors day
Sart Thai
Festival in
Nakhon Si
Thammarat,
Southern
province
Of Thailand
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The End of Buddhist Lent Festival: On the full
moon day of the eleventh lunar month
Thai Buddhists offer foods and other necessities to monks.
This ceremony is called “Dhevo Rohana Ceremony”
1 Odalan Festival: On birthday of each Hindu temple
Religious celebration
Theatrical event
2
Galungan Festival: A 10-day festival for Gods & the
spirits of the ancestors in every 210 days
Activities for
Balinese Hindus
on serving Gods
and the spirits
of their ancestors
in Galungan Day
3 Nyepi Festival: Balinese Hindu New Year Festival
Nyepi Eve parade
Nyepi Day or New Year’s day is the Day of Silence.
But there are much noise and parades in Nyepi Eve.
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Thai Songkran Festival is similar to Balinese Nyepi
Festival in terms of the purpose of the festival,
which is traditional New Year celebration
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Thai Songkran Festival and Sart Thai Festival are
similar to Balinese Galungan Festival in terms of
the practice of dedicating merit to the spirits of
deceased relatives and expressing gratitude to the
deceased ancestors
Everybody does not wear headdress and
mostly wear round collar outerwear and
Thai wide leg trousers (left) or Thai loincloth
They wear headdresses, short sleeve shirts
or long sleeve shirts; and wear sarongs
Most of men in Northeast and some areas of
Central region of Thailand wear sarongs
Most of them wear collarless blouses with
elbow length sleeve and front opening as
the outer wears, and wear sarongs
They wear the inner wears which have
leaving the shoulders free and front
opening; wear the long-sleeved, lacy
blouses as the outer wears; and
wear sarongs
In the temple festivals, Thai Buddhist men and women
wear the same sarongs as Balinese Hindu men and women