Sacred Places
36 places found
BuddhismWat Phra Yuen
, Thailand
An ancient Theravada temple on the Kuang River in Lamphun, one of four corner monasteries founded by Queen Chamadevi and home to four standing Buddha images enshrined within its stupa.
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BuddhismWat Prasat
, Thailand
A name shared by several historic Buddhist temples in Thailand, found in Chiang Mai and Nonthaburi, each carrying its own local history and devotional life.
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BuddhismWat Ratchaburana
, Thailand
A name carried by several Thai Buddhist temples — most notably in Ayutthaya, Bangkok, and Phitsanulok — each a sanctuary of long-standing devotion within its own city.
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BuddhismWat Ratchapradit
, Thailand
A first-class royal Buddhist temple founded by King Mongkut in 1864, the first monastery of the Thammayut Nikaya in Bangkok and a marble-clad gem of Rattanakosin Island.
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BuddhismWat Saket
, Thailand
The Bangkok temple known for the Golden Mount — an artificial hill crowned with a gilded chedi enshrining a relic of the Buddha brought from Sri Lanka.
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BuddhismWat Suan Dok
, Thailand
A fourteenth-century royal Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, founded for the monk Sumana Thera and famed for the relic that, by legend, doubled itself before its enshrinement.
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BuddhismWat Suthat
, Thailand
A first-class royal Buddhist temple in Bangkok's inner Rattanakosin quarter, famed for its towering Giant Swing and for the longest ordination hall in Thailand.
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BuddhismWat Suwan Dararam
, Thailand
A first-class royal Buddhist temple in the old capital of Ayutthaya in central Thailand, holding a quiet but enduring place within the kingdom's network of officially recognised royal monasteries.
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BuddhismWat Thepthidaram
, Thailand
A third-grade royal Buddhist temple in Bangkok founded by King Rama III in honour of his eldest daughter, distinguished by its 52 statues of bhikkhuni and its quiet poetic heritage.
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BuddhismWat Traimit
, Thailand
A Theravada Buddhist temple in Bangkok's Chinatown best known for the Golden Buddha, a 5.5-tonne solid-gold Sukhothai-era statue hidden for centuries beneath a layer of plaster.
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BuddhismWat Yai Chai Mongkhon
, Thailand
A historic Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya remembered for the tallest chedi in the city, raised by King Naresuan the Great to mark his victory over Burmese forces in 1592.
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BuddhismWat Yansangwararam
, Thailand
A vast royal Buddhist complex in Chonburi Province, raised in 1976 by the 19th Supreme Patriarch as a centre for samatha and vipassana practice and crowned by a replica of the Mahabodhi Temple.
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