Sacred Places
219 places found
BuddhismWat Chet Yot
· Thailand · monastery
A fifteenth-century Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai whose seven-spired sanctuary recalls the Mahabodhi Temple of Bodh Gaya, drawing pilgrims born in the year of the Snake.
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BuddhismWat Chulamani
· Thailand · monastery
The oldest surviving Buddhist temple of Phitsanulok Province, set along the east bank of the Nan River and remembered for its ornate Khmer-style pagoda.
BuddhismWat Langka
· Cambodia · monastery
One of the five oldest Buddhist pagodas in Phnom Penh, founded in the fifteenth century to safeguard the Tripitaka and to host gatherings between Khmer and Sri Lankan monks.
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BuddhismWat Mangkon Kamalawat
· Thailand · monastery
The principal Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temple in Bangkok, set in the heart of Chinatown and famous for its year-round festivals and ornate dragon-roofed halls.
BuddhismWat Na Phra Men
· Thailand · monastery
The only Ayutthaya temple to survive the Burmese sack of 1767 intact, preserving a regal late-Ayutthaya ubosot and an ancient Dvaravati-era stone Buddha.
BuddhismWat Pah Nanachat
· Thailand · monastery
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.
BuddhismWat Pa Lelai Worawihan
· Thailand · monastery
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.
BuddhismWat Paramaiyikawat
· Thailand · monastery
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.
BuddhismWat Pathum Wanaram
· Thailand · monastery
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.
BuddhismWat Phanan Choeng
· Thailand · monastery
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 · monastery
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.
BuddhismWat Phnom
· Cambodia · monastery
The hilltop pagoda from which Phnom Penh takes its name, founded according to legend in 1372 by a woman named Penh to enshrine Buddha images and a Vishnu statue found in a floating koki tree.