Royal tonsure ceremony

The sokan ceremony (Thai: พระราชพิธีโสกันต์), often translated as royal tonsure ceremony, was an important royal practice in Siam (now Thailand). It was an elaborate form of the Thai topknot-cutting ceremony, reserved for royalty of phra ong chao rank and above.

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