1. Associate Professor Jaruphan Supprung Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University A Comparative Study of Thai and Balinese Temple Festival Dress Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace The famous Thai Buddhist Temple in Bangkok, Thailand Mother Temple of Besakih on the slopes of Mount Agung The famous Balinese Hindu Temple in eastern Bali, Indonesia

2. Aims of this Qualitative Research To study Thai Buddhist and Balinese Hindu temple festivals   To compare Thai Buddhist temple festivals dress with Balinese Hindu temple festivals dress  To create the knowledge which can be useful for Thai attitudes and cultural perceptions, especially for Thai children and youth

3. 1 Songkran Festival: Thai traditional New Year (starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days) Give alms to monks Build sand pagodas Release birds & fishes Make merit to ancestors Pour scented water on Buddha image Pour scented water on their elders’ hand Pour scented water/ on each other Take part in folk plays

4. 2 Buddhist Lent Festival: 3 months Lent in rainy season (starts on the first day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month) Large candle procession Thai Buddhist people present large candles and bathing robes to Buddhist monks Present large candles to monks Present bathing robes to monks

5. 3 Sart Thai Festival: On the 15th waning (no moon) day of the tenth lunar month Sart Thai Day is the day of making merit traditions and the honoring Ghosts and Ancestors day Sart Thai Festival in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Southern province Of Thailand

6. 4 The End of Buddhist Lent Festival: On the full moon day of the eleventh lunar month Thai Buddhists offer foods and other necessities to monks. This ceremony is called “Dhevo Rohana Ceremony”

7. 1 Odalan Festival: On birthday of each Hindu temple Religious celebration Theatrical event

8. 2 Galungan Festival: A 10-day festival for Gods & the spirits of the ancestors in every 210 days Activities for Balinese Hindus on serving Gods and the spirits of their ancestors in Galungan Day

9. 3 Nyepi Festival: Balinese Hindu New Year Festival Nyepi Day or New Year’s day is the Day of Silence. But there are much noise and parades in Nyepi Eve. Nyepi Eve parade

10. Thai Songkran Festival is similar to Balinese Nyepi Festival in terms of the purpose of the festival, which is traditional New Year celebration 1 2 Thai Songkran Festival and Sart Thai Festival are similar to Balinese Galungan Festival in terms of the practice of dedicating merit to the spirits of deceased relatives and expressing gratitude to the deceased ancestors

11. Everybody does not wear headdress and mostly wear round collar outerwear and Thai wide leg trousers (left) or Thai loincloth Most of men in Northeast and some areas of Central region of Thailand wear sarongs They wear headdresses, short sleeve shirts or long sleeve shirts; and wear sarongs

12. They wear the inner wears which have leaving the shoulders free and front opening; wear the long-sleeved, lacy blouses as the outer wears; and wear sarongs Most of them wear collarless blouses with elbow length sleeve and front opening as the outer wears, and wear sarongs

13. In the temple festivals, Thai Buddhist men and women wear the same sarongs as Balinese Hindu men and women