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Posted: 25 July 2018 1:28:16 pm
Ekkapol football coach Chanthawong and members of the football team who were rescued from a flooded cave attend a Buddhist ceremony as they prepare to be ordained as Buddhist monks. Novices in Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. (AP Photo)
Eleven boys from a football team, survivors of a flooded Thai cave ordained as Buddhist novices Wednesday in a Chiang Rai temple in memory of a volunteer diver who died during their rescue. The boys and their 25-year-old coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, arrived at Wat Phra That Doi Tung temple in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai District, wearing white robes in the midst of rain and fog.
The group listened to Buddhist songs. They were given saffron robes to wear during an emotionally charged ceremony broadcast live on Facebook by local authorities.
The group was shaved the day before to prepare to become novice Buddhist monks.
now. This experience will help them appreciate their parents and give them a taste of the Dhamma, "said local media Manit Prakobkit, vice president of Mae Sai Cultural Council
The boys and their coach will live nine days in a Buddhist temple and adhere to the teachings and precepts of Buddhism, which is the main religion of Thailand.
One of the boys, 14-year-old Adul Sam-on, is a Christian and does not belong to any other country. was not ordained.
12 boys and their coach ended on July 10 when the last group was secured from inside the flooded cave of Tham Luang in Chiang Rai.
Rescue operation, families of boys promised rescue and in memory of diver Samarn Kunan, 38, boys would become novices.
Samarn, a former member of the elite unit SEAL of the Thai Navy, was the only the victim of the operation to rescue the boys and their coach after the monsoon rains. the trapped inside the
At the temple on Wednesday, the boys helped each other to put on their new clothes at a ceremony attended by their relatives and Samarn's wife, Valeepoan Kunan.
The ceremony is over with participants and temple visitors. Picking up pockets of coins scattered in the air – a custom in Thai ordination ceremony to mean giving up treasure of the world – with the most catching pockets in their umbrellas.
The boys and Ekapol went to explore the caves on June 23rd. trap. They survived for nine days on the water dripping rocks before they were discovered on a muddy mound by divers.
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