33 places found
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.
, 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.