An elephant carried by villagers gives food and kneels to monks in a village in Surin, northeastern Thailand.
The lovely giant girl in this video is named Buaban. Buaban joined the villagers to bring food to the streets to donate to local monks through alms-giving ceremony, a form of food donation to the local temple.
Buaban appearing in the video seems to be very sincere and knows the ritual better than anyone. Every time she finished handing a packet of food into a monk’s bowl, the big girl knelt with her head and used the trunk like her hands were folded.
After giving food to all the monks, the elephant Buaban lay down on the ground to perform the great ceremony with the people living in the village. It is known that the monks to whom Buaban gave the food were the ones who in turn blessed it during the ceremony that took place on May 25.
Mahout Waranyu Mueanrat, a villager, said that Buaban was rescued when she was separated from the herd at an early age. “Buaban loves to give alms to the monk so we bring her here every morning to help,” he said. She is a real Buddhist elephant.”
The Thai elephant is the national mascot of Thailand. The elephant species found in Thailand is the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus), a subspecies of the Asian elephant. Elephants have contributed to Thai society and have been a symbol of Thailand for centuries. Elephants have a significant impact on Thai culture. In the early 1900s, about 100,000 elephants were domesticated or captured in Thailand. As of mid-2007, there were approximately 3,456 domesticated elephants remaining in Thailand and approximately one thousand wild elephants.
