Ban Cherng Taley or Tin-Rail in English after that it changed to be Cherng Taley. Many people (mostly Chinese) liked to seek fortune and worked here till Cherng Taley was a big community. Chinese paid their respects to Chinese Buddha images so they consulted to each other to invite the Buddha images from China for good luck and prevention from all bad things. Pae Joo Pai Tak, a barber at Tin-Rail village accepted this great assignment to bring it to Tin-Rail.
In 1901, a barber Pae Joo Pai Tak took a trip to China to call on his hometown. When he came back, he brought three wooden carving Chinese Buddha images. He made an invitation to Tin-Rail. Amount three Chinese Buddha images; there was one image that the surname “Joo” was as same as Pae Joo Pai Tuk and Pae Joo Jew Tee who gave a land to the shrine. Therefore, the shrine was established. The committee persuaded people to construct the shrine building. The shrine with wooden pole, a roof covered with thatch, in front of site adjacent a road was named “Abbey Kim Hui Tien”. The president Buddha image was Sam Ong Hoo which referred to the god or three holy Buddha images. As well as the legend told that there were more 360 relatives who took part in looking after an abbey.
Nowadays there were two Buddha images at Sam Ong Hoo Shrine, Cherng Taley, and another one (Pra Joo Hoo) installed at Khun Charn Sermkitsri because of the requirement of Pra Joo Hoo himself.
Since Pra Sam Ong Hoo installed at Tin-Rail, it made Chinese people more harmonious. People paid their respects to the shrine increasingly. Some asked for good luck, some asked for medicine or herb to cure people.
Ceremony / traditions
Besides, the vegetarian festival is held every year, the sixtieth anniversary of age is organized on the 15th nightfall twelfth month of Sam Ong Hoo as well.
Belief
People at Tambol Cherng Taley or “Tin-Rail” usually go to respect on many festivals such as New Year day or own birthday. In the past, the spirit of Buddha image often used human’s body to stay and cure people. But at present, everything has changed. People emphasis on tourism industry and a small community becomes a big city, even so some families still keep the old medicine labels but don’t reveal to a public.
