Lottery Winner Offers 3,000 Jasmine Garlands to Buddha Statue

 | Thu 20 Nov 2014 21:39 ICT

CityNews – A lucky lottery winner on Monday offered 3,000 jasmine garlands to the Than Jai Buddha statue at Chiang Mai’s Wat Phra That Doi Kham.
Photo: Weerasak Panyachod.

Siwanat Ratchatadamrongrat won more than 1.3 million baht in the previous day’s lottery draw. She has now won the lottery on 25 separate occasions.

Many people visit Wat Phra That Doi Kham to enjoy the scenery and ask for blessings from the Than Jai Buddha statue. Lottery winners often make offerings of jasmine garlands in thanks, and to make merit.