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迷失在琅勃拉邦破晓时分,琅勃拉邦仍在沉睡。在黄褐色的庙宇屋顶、绿色的棕榈树和白色房屋模糊的远方,一条长长的橘黄色队伍踏碎晨雾向你走来。在这些光头赤脚、身披袈裟的和尚队伍的前面,女人们跪在竹席上,将竹制容器高高举过头顶。当队伍来到跟前时,她们再将容器里的糯米饭一撮一撮分别放到每一个和尚的饭钵里。这种在任何一个佛教国家都存在的“施舍”和“化缘”活动中,只有这里的最传统、最纯洁也最具规模。当一位西方人在140年前第一次记载下这一惊人
Lost In Luang Prabang dawn, Luang Prabang is still asleep. On the tawny temple roofs, green palms and white houses blurry afar, a long orange team marches down the morning mist to you. In front of these bare-bare, shabby monks, women knelt on bamboo mats and held bamboo containers overhead. When the team came to the front, they then put a handful of sticky rice in the container into the bowl of each monk. This “alms” and “alienation” activities that exist in any Buddhist country are the most traditional, the purest and the most magnificent here. When a Westerner first recorded this amazing 140 years ago