Yesterday during the celebration of "Buddha Day" I did an observation at a Chinese Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai. Outside the temple was a small shrine and a father was guiding three small children in prayer. One small boy in a red shirt walked around the corner of the shrine to light his incense stick, holding it carefully in the flame until it was smoking. Carefully he walked back around the corner and joined his father, older brother and little sister. His father folded the end of the incense stick in his hands in the traditional 'wai' and they all bowed their heads for awhile. Then the father showed them how to put the ends of the incense sticks in the sand. They all bowed and left.
These pictures are a little distant, but I didn't want to intrude, so I took them from behind one of the pillars out of sight.
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