Huge tent pavilions with tables and chairs are set up to feed guests in style and comfort, and after the midday meal a great procession is formed. There are also the usual prayers and a sermon. This ceremony is virtually identical to that of Visak Boci . Usually, however, a temple has only one festival annually, during some period of leisure in the cultivation cycle. Although a few households may have at least one of its members at every temple event, other attend only two or three.
Most families probably participate in about half a dozen during the course of a year.
But some of the other holidays that actually have great significance in Buddhist doctrine, such as the Anniversary of Buddha's Last Sermon or the monks' entry into retreat, attract relatively few people. Persons from about eight households in West Svay attended this event. Wat Prerung generally draws larger crowds than does Wat Svay, for two reasons. First, the number of Mohanikay adherents in the area is greater than the number of Thommayut followers.