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(40)The Three Robes
(36)Preparing the new normal 10 April 2021
13-15 February 2021 The Foundation provided fifty sets of the Three
The Big Buddha workers cleaned up the Buddha Robes to be sent to Wat I-jea-munkhalaram in
Garden on Mt. Narkkerd during February 13-15 Narathiwat province for the novices’ ordination at
preparing to be opened on the date 16. Wat Srisakhon, on April 16th.

(37)For the school (41)The Songkran Day
23 February 2021 13 April 2021
The director of Thairath School 29 (Kathu) gave the The Foundation invited the monks of Buddha Gar-
gift to the Foundation for sending a backhoe to den on Mt. Narkkerd to kindly allow the votaries to
remove a tree that fell on the school’s residence, sprinkle water onto them during the great Songkran
in August 2020. The Foundation donated copies of Festival, April 13th. Staff followed the strict guide-
The Dharma magazine and textbooks, to the school lines set out in the public health announcement
as well. during the COVID-19 situation.

(38)Weinthien the Big Buddha
26 February 2021 (42)The complex medical
The several nation votaries came to perform equipment
the Weinthien rite of carrying a lit candle 7 May 2021
while walking around the big Buddha image, The Vachira Phuket Hospital finished the
in the annual Makha Bucha Day in the Bud- installation of the complex medical equip-

dha Garden on Mt. Narkkerd. ment (DSA) at the Hybrid Operation Room
in Luangphor-cham Building. This project,
funded by both the Than Tao Mahaprom
Foundation who gave 25 million Baht and the 8 million Baht contributed by the Hospital, was
(39)Militaries paying respect successfully coordinated by the Phraphutthamingmongkhon Sattha 45 Foundation.
25 March 2021
The representative of General Naren Siriphuban (command-
ing Officer of the Armed Forces Development Command),
came to pay respect the Big Buddha during the roaming
meetings on March 24th-25th in Phuket and also donated
money to the Foundation. The Foundation’s board informed
the Phuket Big Buddha project and donated a set of the
Dharma Magazine and Dharma books, to the honored guests.