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The monks passed the sai sin to each other then they started to chant again, the second chanting.	After the second chanting has finished, we are giving the offerings to all the monks. We are touching each other to have some merit from it. She is going to put the offerings on the cloth that is on the floor. This is because female people are not allowed to give something directly to the monk.

My dad is burning some pieces of paper that has all the names of our relations written on. The reason is to pass some of the merit to them.	The head monk is getting ready for another round of chanting while my aunt is getting ready for "gruat nam". This is one way of many different ways to pass the merit to the ancertors.

They are doing "gruat nam" on to the ashes of the papers that my dad burned a minute ago. My aunt is praying to the monks after she has finished hers.	While we are doing "gruat nam", the monks are giving us a final chanting for the ceremony before they leave.

All Photographs copyright: Nattawud Daoruang.