People pay last respect to remains of Thailand's late Supreme Patriarch

BANGKOK, December 14 (TNA) - People are paying their last respect to the remains of Thailand's late Supreme Patriarch, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, at the Bowon Niwet Temple in Bangkok, before a royally-sponsored cremation set at the Thep Sirintharawat Temple in the capital on December 16. The Buddhist Bowon Niwet Temple has been opened for the general people to pay their last respect to the late Supreme Patriarch until 9am on December 15, after that the royally-sponsored ceremonies will be prepared. People have arrived at the Boworn Niwet Temple to place their funeral flowers and to remember the revered Supreme Patriarch and his teachings before his cremation on December 16. Meanwhile, staff of the Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden in Pattaya City in seaside Chon Buri Province in the Thai East are improving the landscape gardens of the Thep Sirintharawat Temple and decorating its crematorium to represent both simplicity and honor for the late Supreme Patriarch. Elephant models, covered with blue globe amaranths showing the birthday color of the late Supreme Patriarch, have been placed at all the corners of the crematorium. In Songkhla Province in the Thai South, the Ban Bang Dan artificial flower group has been assigned to make funeral flowers for funeral flower presentation ceremonies in Muang and Hat Yai Districts to coincide with the cremation of the late Supreme Patriarch in Bangkok. Elder members of the flower-making group are hurriedly producing funeral flowers for the local ceremonies and for the Phufa Shop under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, saying they are proud of the participation. (TNA)