Sacred Places
85 places found
BuddhismWat Chaloem Phra Kiat Worawihan
Nonthaburi · Thailand · monastery
A royal Buddhist Temple on the Chao Phraya in Nonthaburi, raised by King Nangklao in filial devotion to his mother and enclosed by fortified walls that recall the ramparts of the Grand Palace.
BuddhismWat Chedi Yot Thong
· Thailand · monastery
A small historic Buddhist Temple in Phitsanulok, central Thailand, treasured for its delicate Sukhothai-period lotus-bud chedi, the last of its style remaining in the province.
BuddhismWat Chet Yot
Chiang Mai · Thailand · monastery
A fifteenth-century Lanna sanctuary in Chiang Mai whose seven brick spires echo the Mahabodhi Temple of Bodh Gaya, and a place of pilgrimage for devotees born in the year of the Snake.
BuddhismWat Chulamani
Phitsanulok · Thailand · monastery
The oldest standing Temple in Phitsanulok Province, its weathered Khmer-style prang rising in a quiet grass compound beside the Nan River as one of the northernmost Khmer monuments in Thailand.
BuddhismWat Langka
Phnom Penh · Cambodia · monastery
One of the five oldest wats in Phnom Penh, founded in 1442 CE to safeguard the Tripitaka and to host the Khmer and Sri Lankan monks whose gathering gave the Temple its name. It stands today as a living monastery of teaching and meditation near the Independence Monument.
BuddhismWat Mangkon Kamalawat
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
The Dragon Lotus Temple, principal seat of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism in Thailand, rises among the incense smoke of Bangkok's Chinatown with sweeping tiled roofs and gilded shrine halls in the Teochew style. Founded in 1871, it remains the country's largest and most revered Chinese Buddhist Temple.
BuddhismWat Na Phra Men
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya · Thailand · monastery
The only Temple within the old city of Ayutthaya to survive the Burmese conquest of 1767 unburned, Wat Na Phra Men keeps its Ayutthaya-era ordination hall and a green-stone Buddha image reckoned among the oldest in Thailand.
BuddhismWat Nong Pa Phong
Warin Chamrap · Thailand · monastery
The forest monastery Ajahn Chah founded in 1954 near Ubon Ratchathani, wellspring of the Thai Forest Tradition and mother monastery to some 240 branch communities across the world.
BuddhismWat Pah Nanachat
Warin Chamrap · Thailand · monastery
Wat Pah Nanachat is an English-speaking Theravada forest monastery in the Isaan countryside outside Ubon Ratchathani, founded in 1975 to train monks from beyond Thailand in the lineage of Ajahn Chah.
BuddhismWat Pa Lelai Worawihan
Suphan Buri · Thailand · monastery
An ancient riverside Temple in Suphan Buri, home to Luang Pho To, an immense stuccoed Buddha image seated in the rare Pang Pa Lelai posture and enshrined in a tower tall enough to be seen from across the town.
BuddhismWat Pa Mok Worawihan
Pa Mok · Thailand · monastery
Wat Pa Mok Worawihan is a riverside Temple in Ang Thong province, central Thailand, built around a gilded reclining Buddha image nearly twenty-three metres long that tradition says came to rest here of its own will.
BuddhismWat Paramaiyikawat
Pak Kret · Thailand · monastery
Wat Paramaiyikawat is a Mon-heritage riverine Temple on Ko Kret island in Nonthaburi, known across Thailand for the Phra Chedi Mutao, a white stupa that has leaned gently over the Chao Phraya since the river eroded its footing.