BANGKOK, 24 October 2014 – Thai people and government officials have participated in the alms giving ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Thailand’s late Supreme Patriarch at Sanam Luang earlier this morning.
Officials from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, representatives from private and public sectors as well as Thai people offered alms to 200 monks led by 10 dignitaries belonging to the Royal Chapter of monks.
The merit making was held to commemorate the first-year anniversary of the death of His Holiness Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara.
His Holiness was the 19th Supreme Patriarch of the Rattanakosin era. He became the leader of Thai monks in 1989. He was born on October 3rd, 1913 and passed away on October 24, 2013.
