Sacred Places
36 places found
BuddhismWat Pah Nanachat
, Thailand
An international Theravada forest monastery near Ubon Ratchathani, founded by Ajahn Chah in 1975 as a training community for non-Thai monks in the Thai Forest Tradition.
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BuddhismWat Pa Lelai Worawihan
, Thailand
A historic Thai Buddhist temple in Suphan Buri Province, set along the western bank of the Suphanburi River and treasured locally as a place of refuge and devotion.
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BuddhismWat Paramaiyikawat
, Thailand
An ancient riverside Mon-influenced Buddhist temple on the island of Ko Kret in Nonthaburi, recognised by its leaning Mutao chedi and devotion to a beloved royal grandmother.
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BuddhismWat Pathum Wanaram
, Thailand
A nineteenth-century royal Buddhist temple set among Bangkok's busiest shopping districts, founded in 1857 by King Mongkut beside his Sa Pathum Palace and home to a Thammayut Nikaya community.
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BuddhismWat Phanan Choeng
, Thailand
An Ayutthaya temple older than the kingdom itself, home to a 19-metre gilded Buddha revered as a guardian of mariners and a meeting point of Thai and Chinese devotion.
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BuddhismWat Phichayayatikaram
, Thailand
A graceful Thonburi-side Buddhist temple on the bank of Khlong Somdet Chao Phraya in Bangkok's Khlong San District, regarded as among the most beautifully composed of the city's wats.
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BuddhismWat Phra Lao Thep Nimit
, Thailand
A Buddhist temple in Amnat Charoen Province known for its Lanna-style ordination hall and the eighteenth-century image regarded as the finest Buddha of Thailand's Northeast.
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BuddhismWat Phra Mahathat
, Thailand
The principal temple of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand, whose great Sri Lankan-style stupa is believed to enshrine a tooth-relic of the Buddha.
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BuddhismWat Phra Ram
, Thailand
A historic Buddhist temple at the heart of old Ayutthaya, set within easy reach of the royal palace and aligned, like the city's principal wats, toward the rising sun.
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BuddhismWat Phra Si Mahathat
, Thailand
A first-class royal Buddhist temple in Bangkok's Bang Khen District, founded after the Siamese Revolution to enshrine relics of the Buddha and to mark a new democratic era.
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BuddhismWat Phra That Choeng Chum
, Thailand
A Buddhist temple in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand, whose 24-metre brick chedi rises over the venerated footprints of four past Buddhas and is depicted on the reverse of the ten-satang coin.
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BuddhismWat Phra That Hariphunchai
, Thailand
An ancient Lanna royal temple in Lamphun, founded over a relic of the Buddha's hair, whose 46-metre golden chedi remains a beating heart of northern Thai devotion.
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