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DPA/Phnom Penh
Hundreds of Cambodians gathered at downtown Phnom Penh’s Wat Langka pagoda early yesterday to celebrate Pchum Ben, an annual 15-day festival honouring the dead.
Starting before dawn, families arrived with gifts of food and drink for the monks, for a chance to pray at the nearly six-hundred-year-old temple.
Inside the pagoda’s buildings, temples laden with whole fish, platters of vegetables and rice awaited the monks.
Cambodians believe that by offering food to monks, they can transfer it to the spirits, said Phnamn Chandara, the pagoda’s second most senior monk.
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