The Thai Princess Mother Funeral 1/14 40 min.

The Thai Royal Cremation & the Recursiveness of Ritual. By J.F. STAAL,professor emeritus of philosophy and of South Asian languages, University of California at Berkeley.
Her Royal Highness Somdej Phra Sri Nakharintharabaromarachanii, the Princess Mother, or Somdej Yaa, 'Royal Grandmother,' as she was affectionately called, was born on October 21, 1900. She became the wife of Prince Mahidol and the mother of two kings: King Ananda Mahidol, who died young in 1946, and his younger brother, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the present King of Thailand. The Princess Mother was almost as popular as His Majesty and H.R.H. Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn: for while the King has remained an ultimate resort in time of crisis, sensitive to public opinion and accessible to individual petitioners, all three have devoted much of their lives to social and economic reform. The 'Royal Grandmother' dedicated herself to the improvement of medical care throughout the kingdom and to the protection of environmental resources, particularly forests. It is not surprising that her passing away on July 18, 1995, plunged the nation into mourning and induced the government to honour her with a traditional, royal cremation.
Royal persons are not cremated until many months after their death. Many details are given by Quaritch Wales and Dutch readers should be familiar with some of them from Cees Nooteboom's 1986 novel De Boeddha achter de schutting. The corpse is first placed in a sitting position inside an inner urn, made of silver, the palms joined in front of the face in a gesture of homage. The inner urn is placed in an octagonal golden outer urn, which is taken by the family to the large Dusit or 'Celestial' Hall in the Grand Palace in the course of a small procession 'with an absence of that display of modern militarism,' writes Quaritch Wales, 'which, however great its sociological value, always seems to strike a jarring note in every State Ceremony where it is present'. We should remember, however, that Asian funerals are, at least in part, joyous occasions: Thai cremations used to be a kind of carnivals redolent with entertainment, shadow plays, masked dances, fireworks and lots to eat and drink. Much of this has disappeared, possibly because Europeans frowned on these displays since they look upon death as an entirely solemn and mournful occasion.

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