Mountain bowls

A chance for the faithful to give at Neak Pean on Oudong

Any opportunity to collect a few riel from the Buddhist faithful is a noticeable feature on Oudong mountain. Here's a couple of opportunities I noticed, alongwith scores of others, at the numerous stupas and attractions on the mountain. The top photo of five Buddhas prompts the locals into lighting incense, praying and placing some money into the bowl in front of each Buddha image at a shrine called Neak Pean, which is on a small hillock shared with a Muslim mosque called Vihear Cham Ta San. Below is an opportunity for the devout to pray for good luck and fortune depending on what year, and under which animal sign, they were born. So if you were born under the pig, rabbit, cow, tiger, horse and so on, then plonk some riel in the bowl and make a wish. It's that easy.

Birth sign wish bowls on Oudong