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Ajaan Promwachirayan seated on the right and Ajaan Swai wat abbot on the left
at WatNawamin in Raynham, MA
(October 2008/2551)


  In 2006 we returned to Thailand to visit family, eat a lot of good food and share good times in The Land of Smiles. Destinations: The cities of Bangkok and Lampang & Village of Ban Bai Nah. Here we gather at Wat Doisutep after a visit to Chiang Mai.
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Tsunami victims: A Buddhist monk prays for victims of the deadly Dec. 26 Asian tsunami including more than 5,000 killed in Thailand at a ceremony at Khoa Lak in Thailand Tuesday January 12, 2005.






     Welcome to Noi's Thailand info and links   To Chan's (Jan's) Thai Page - Enjoy your visit.        Flag of Thailand
จันทร์ ไทย หน้าหนืง                      
She had this information and thought she would share them with you.
Noi comes from a small village outside of Lampang in the north.

Thailand  is also known as "The Land of Smiles", or the old name of Siam.
Thailand means "land of the free."
The white elephant is the sacred animal of Thailand.
December 5 is H.M. The King's Birthday
All are invited to attend Fathers' Day Sunday, December 6th 2009/2552 at 10:00 AM for a celebration of His Majesties Birthday.
Wat Nawamin will pay tribute to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The president of the ceremony invites all to come together at the temple to make merit in His Majesties name. There will be a time for giving tak baht and tamboon and we will offer food to the monks. We will worship (na mat sa gaan) the Dharma from 10AM to 11AM.
Please, join us at 382 South Street East Raynham, MA 02767-5130
Phone: 508-823-1800, 508-823-5069
 More info in Thai at the temple website

~ 2009/2552 ~ HM the King wishes a Happy New Year to Thai people in a televised address.

Monarchy, The King and Queen, Government    The King of Thailand Pages:     His Majesty

Thailand is governed by a constitutional monarchy with His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej as Head of State. For decades, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been respected, revered, and loved by Thais throughout the Kingdom.
His life’s work, spanning more than five decades, covers a vast spectrum of activities which have far-reaching effects on Thai life. 		The Royal Barge
A Royal Celebration

~ His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates 60 years on the throne ~
As a young man of 19 years of age, he acceded to the throne in 1946. On June 12, 2006 HM celebrated 60 years on the throne with a procession of the royal barge along the Chao Phraya River from Tha Wasukri pier to the Grand Palace. On hand to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of His Majesty’s accession to the throne are numerous royal guests from near and far. [Read more...]

Long Live His Majesty The King.
His Majesty's pages on the Bangkok Post Publishing Public Company Limited.
Noi in Bangkok, 2002

Bangkok, Thailand Weather Forcast shows current conditions at the airport.

Official power rests with the government, personified by the Prime Minister, the Parliament, and a bureaucratic system that reaches down to the village level.
Thaimain.org The Public Relations Department, Office of the Prime Minister introduction to Thailand and official news and information. The new Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva is forming his Cabinet.


The Thai Heritage Page General, historical and cultural information on Thailand or Siam, The Royal Family, Tribute to King Rama IX of Thailand from Senator Max Baucus (US Senator), Thai Greeting, The Royal Barges of Siam and Temple of the Emerald Buddha.

News resources    NEWS - Online Thai Newspapers and Radio - NEWS
Thai versions: Mass Communication Organization of Thailand news, TV and radio
Thainews is in Thai, but if you scroll down, there is an English version link on the left.
NNT : National News Bureau of Thailand In English with a link to the Thai version.
   English versions:
Thai News Daily English World News link to Thai Daily. Bangkok News headlines, sports, business and more.
Bangkok Post The Bangkok Post online is Thailand's top site for regional news, educational materials, general interest books and much more.
Phuket Gazette Daily News, Phuket Gazette Online, & so much more info. The NATION Thailand's Independant Online News & Information Service
Watching Thailand News Newspaper, News provider and publishing with specital sections concerned Thailand. Also has lin to Thai Radio and English versions.
The Beauty of Thailand
image links to American Thai Relations Site    LOCAL LINKS:

AMERICAN-THAI RELATION Commemorating 175 years of U.S.-Thai Friendship.
2008, marked 175 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

Thai Community in Boston and New England Area forums, photos of local Thai and Buddhist Events and local Thai Entertainment.

Tourism and Travel    Tourism and Travel to Thailand
Travelling to Thailand? *Passport and onward/return ticket required*. Tourists staying no longer than 30 days do not need a visa. For visa request (over 30days) visit Thai Embassy Washington, D.C.     Weather conditions
  More Info on travelling abroad at: United States Department of State - Bureau of Consular Affairs
(CDC)Health Information for Travelers to Southeast Asia Visit the CDC pages for taveller recommendations.
View the 5 airports under Airport Authority of Thailand: Bangkok International Airport, Chiang Mai International Airport, Hat Yai International Airport, Phuket International Airport and Chiang Rai International Airport.
Welcome Thai has a colorful Thailand travel guide with Tours, Hotels & Resorts, Weddings, Shopping, Diving, Golf Courses and online Booking & Reservation Services. Special rates for holiday in paradise ! Bangkoksite Welcome to Bangkok & Thailand - Tourist Attractions, Museums, Sightseeing and Entertainment.
Mahidol University offers a complete info guide to Thailand   Learn all about Thailand from the students of Mahidol University. Check out the travel information and statistics. Enjoy your visit to Thailand.
Sawadee.com find your destination in the Central, The North, North-East or The South of Thailand. Well done site with lots of travel/tourism info.
Provided by SunSITE Thailand at Assumption University info about Business, education, government, society, events and tourism.
@Bangkok Visit the magnificent temples, palaces and museums. The Thais call it Krungthep, the city of angels.

Money and Currency Conversions    $ Money and Currency Conversions
    Currency : There are 100 satangs in 1 baht. (B=baht) Notes are issued in denominations of B1000 (gray), B500 (purple), B100 (red), B50 (blue), B20 (green), and B10 (brown). There are 10, 5 and 1 baht coin, and 50 and 25 satang.

UCC XE.com's Universal Currency Converter convert US Dollars to Baht with the current exchange rate.


Buddha,Dhamma,Sangha,Pali

    
Visiting Thailand, a country where Buddhism has flourished for more than one thousand years, you will not be astonished to see a large number of Buddhist monasteries and Buddha images. All Buddhists chant in the Pali language. In lists of tourist attractions in Bangkok, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaeo) is the most prominent place where all tourists must pay a visit because it houses the Emerald Buddha, the most sacred Buddha image of Thailand.
  • Wat Dhammamongkul (Temple of the Jade Buddha) in Bangkok


  • PALI TIPITAKA CHANTING : ORAL TRADITION OF THERAVADA BUDDHISM Buddhist chanting and oral wisdom, from 11th to 22nd February, 2008. This is a 252 page study on Theravada Buddhism.


  • Our Local Temple: Wat Nawamintararachutis (The NMR Buddhist Meditation Center) is a Theravada Buddhist temple, established in 2002 in honor of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the Great, Rama IX of Thailand. Wat Nawamintararachutis is a working Thai Theravada Buddhist temple or "wat" in Raynham, Massachusetts. Wat Nawamintararachutis was founded on August 1, 2002 in Boston as a Theravada Buddhist temple of the Mahanikaya sect and moved to Raynham in 2006. There are 5-6 ordained disciples--bhikkhus (monks) in saffron-colored clothes known also as Adjan in the Watnawamin community. The property is home to Thai Buddhist monks who use it while awaiting the building of the Wat Nawamintararachutis temple. Much of the website is in Thai but there are some sections in English.


    • The Triple Gem is available to everyone visiting Wat Nawamintararachutis.
    The central focus of inspiration and devotion for Buddhists is the Triple Gem (also known as the Three Treasures and the Three Refuges). These three are Buddha, Dhamma (Dharma), and Sangha. Buddha means 'Enlightened One' or 'Awakened One,' and is generally used to refer to the founder of Buddhism. There have been other Buddhas before him, however, and will be other Buddhas in the future. The word Dhamma (in Sanskrit, Dharma) is often used to refer to the Buddha's teachings, but it also means the eternal Truth which the teachings convey to us. Dhamma is threefold: the Dhamma that we study, that which we practice, and the Dhamma of Realization. Sangha literally means 'community' or 'assembly.' The word has two meanings in proper Buddhist usage: the community of disciples (whether ordained or not) who have gained Realization of any of the stages of Awakening; and the community of ordained disciples--bhikkhus (monks) and bhikkhunis (nuns).
  • WATNAWAMIN.NET Dedicated to Buddhism & Wat Nawamintararachutis


  • Boston Buddha Vararam Temple 125 North Road, Bedford, MA 01730
    Phone: 781-271-0989, Fax: 781-271-0157, E-mail: watboston1998@hotmail.com


  • English Versions of Buddhism: BuddhaNet - Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education Network This site has a lot of information and includes MP3 audio of chanting, an eBook library, meditation, history and culture.


    • Note: Etiquette When Visiting a Temple
    Click Here for a brief summary of how to behave... Thais prefer visitors to temples to cover their bodies as a sign of respect for their religion. Religious objects like Buddha images and chedi should not be climbed upon or touched. When Thais sit on floors, they do not point their feet in a direction worthy of respect, such as a Buddha image, monk, or a teacher. They consider the head as "high" and the feet as "low"

Thai Food
chao - Thai for rice 		   Thai Food and Groceries - Hot & Delicious

Established in 1998, ThaiGrocer is the first and complete Thai grocery store on the Internet. Woks, rice cookers, and other equipment for cooking at home. Also a large selection of foods - Jasmine Rice , sticky rice. canned goods, snacks, Chilli & Curry Paste, spices, soups, noodles, Teas & Coffees, Dried Foods and many other mouth watering delights from Thailand.
ImportFood.com Thai Supermarket Onlline, also offers recipies like "Pad Thai".
“gaeng” means soup and this is one of my favorites made from the Fak Keaw... It is delicious with or without the coconut milk and Jan uses red curry to spice it up. The vegetable fak (despite sounding like a swear word in English) is wax gourd which is sometimes also known as a winter melon.

Shopping    Shopping
  Thailand.com Shopping! uses the services of the Bank of Asia (BOA) - for all on-line Visa and MasterCard credit card transactions. Congratulations! Bringing Top Quality Asian Products To Your Door! You are ready to go Shopping and bring the beauty of Thailand into your home.
DCO Thai Bookshop Thailand Books, Software and Keyboards. 100% secure shopping for books, keyboards, food with deliveries outside of Thailand.

Muay Thai    Muay Thai - Thai Boxing
Muay Thai - Thai Kick Boxing is a highly organised and popular sport. Ratchadamnoen Boxing Stadium in Bangkok is a must visit for those who would like to see the Muay Thai style of boxing. This site has the Basic rules of Thai boxing matches, Equipment used in Thai Boxing matches and lots of traditional information.
Muay Thai Music and Instruments with some songs in mp3 format.

Thai Music    Thai Music - online
Thai Music Top 10 Thai Songs in Thailand.
Learn Thai Music Click a link on the page and you will hear a Thai song in Flash Movie format. You will also see the Thai lyrics in phonetic English with an English translation. Scroll down from the movie and you will get a breakdown of the song line by line.
On Youtube video- Bodyslam Save My Life Concert - แค่หบตา ปนัดดา (kae lap dtaa=Just Close Your Eyes) Live from Body Slam Save My Life Concert 20 October 2007. Thai awesome rockers. Just Close your Eyes with words in Thai and transliterated into English.
Khaang Khaa Undecided, I don't know what to do. P'Bank and Clsh Army in concert.
An oldies but goodies Sabai Sabai (Happy Happy) an early version by Bird Thongchai and Sek LoSo. There are many versions of this song by many Thai artists.

   Thai Language resources (dictionaries; keyboards; transliteration) ~ Paa-Saa Tai= ภาษาไทย
Thai2English site is designed to assist in learning the Thai language, or in translating from Thai to English. It has a comprehensive Thai <> English dictionary containing over 30,000 entries, searchable in English, Thai script or transliterated Thai (Thai words written using roman letters). Each Thai word is automatically transliterated and includes tone marks for each syllable.
Thai/English Dictionary Another good site for reverse transcription of English-Thai; Thai transliterations and Thai language.
Thai Keyboard & Alphabet Write ภาษาไทย - Thai-letters that can be included in Web-documents and Email without using Graphics or Extras, then use the “keyboard” below and copy'n'paste the the “Calligraphy” to Word, or the HTML codes to your Email or HTML program.


The Thai video format is VCD and you can Download a free VCD Player at this link: Lalim VCD Player Pro Pro 2.2.2 is the The smallest VCD player! Designed to play Video CDs and is only Size: 76.6KB License: Freeware Price: Free By: Lalim Software

Thai Holidays & Events on guidetothailand.com site.
Thai Public Holidays Quick List
January 1 New Year's Day
February Makkha Puja (Buchaa) Day on the full moon of third lunar month. Makha Puja Day; buddhist holiday - Sunday 8 February, 2009/2552
Commemorates the Buddha preaching to 1250 enlightened monks who came without prior summons. Culminates in a candle lit procemenuon circling the main chapel of every temple.
Magha Puja day; aka Buddhist All Saints' Day, which is one of the most important Buddhist celebrations.
  Located at Wat Nawamin in Raynham at 382 South Street East Raynham, MA.
April 6 Chakri Day
April 12-15 Songkran Festival; Thai New Year
  Family Day
  National Labour Day
May 5 Coronation Day; Anniversary of the Coronation of H.M. the King Bhumibol in 1950
  Visakha Puja Day; most important buddhist holiday
  Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day
  Mid Year Closing, banks
  Asalha Puja Day, at full moon; buddhist holiday; start of Khao Phansa(Buddhist Lent)
August 12 H.M. The Queen's Birthday
October 23 Chulalongkorn Day
October buddhist holiday, at full moon; end of Ok Phansa and start of Thot Kathin
November Loi Krathong, at full moon
December 5 H.M. The King's Birthday
  Constitution Day
December 31 New Year's Eve

  Sunday April 12th   The weather was beautiful on SONGKRAN DAY, the Thai Traditional New Years Day Festival.
  Located at Wat Nawamin in Raynham at 382 South Street East Raynham, MA.
  There were hundreds of people who came to give food & offerings to the monks and receive blessings from the monks and to       share a meal together with all the congregation. There was lots of delicious food, chanting and blessings from the monks, pouring   of fragrant water on the monks hands and the elders to show our respect. The Miss Songkran pageant was splendid as the ten     beautiful ladies received votes in the form of necklaces of flowers from the crowd. It was a lot of fun for everyone.
The congregation washes the monks hands with fragrant water to show their respect and receive blessings for the New Year. The congregation washes the elders hands with fragrant water to show their respect and receive blessings from the honored ones. The people process with the money trees being offered to the temple. The top four winners in the Miss Songkran Pageant.
Visit Songkran Splendors website, ไทย Thai link to Songkran Festival rituals. & (English) links have information on Songkran ritual, water splashing, sand pagoda, freeing birds & fish, eCards as well as the seven angel daughters predictions.


      The year "2009" is the Year or the Ox   Click the lantern to visit - Chinese New Year Pages.

Visit my husband's link to TLC-Brotherhood Page for Vietnam veterans and Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood, of which he was a proud member.
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