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Thai temple art and architecture is the art and architecture of Buddhist temples in Thailand. Temples are known as wats, from the Pāḷi vāṭa, meaning "enclosure". A temple has an enclosing wall that divides it from the secular world.
The temple is formerly known as Wat Hri Bun Ruang (วัดหรีบุญเรือง). Originally a small temple dating back over 500 years in a rural village, Wat Den Sali Si Mueang Kaen underwent a remarkable transformation into a grand spiritual complex in 1894 under the leadership of Kruba Thueang Natsilo (ครูบาเทือง นาถสีโล), a revered abbot from ...
The Sanctuary of Truth (Thai: ปราสาทสัจธรรม) is an unfinished museum in Pattaya, Thailand designed by Thai businessman Lek Viriyaphan. [2] The museum structure is a hybrid of a temple and a castle that is themed on the Ayutthaya Kingdom and of Buddhist and Hindu beliefs.
The mondop (Thai: มณฑป, from Pali/Sanskrit maṇḍapa) is a building form in traditional Thai religious architecture featuring a square or cruciform building with a usually pointed roof. In the narrow sense, it refers to an enclosed square building with a roughly pyramidal , multi-tiered roof culminating in a tall pointed spire , with ...
Thai Buddhist temples (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Thai Buddhist art and architecture" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
In Buddhism, a wat is a Buddhist sacred precinct with vihara, a temple, an edifice housing a large image of Buddha and a facility for lessons.A site without a minimum of three resident bhikkhus cannot correctly be described as a wat although the term is frequently used more loosely, even for ruins of ancient temples.
Two hundred and seventy-two temples, 217 of the Maha Nikaya order and 55 of the Dhammayut order, hold the status of royal temple. Royal wisungkhamasima (Pali: visuṃ gāmasīmā), official recognition of a temple's legitimacy, has been granted to 20,281 temples. The following is a very partial list of Buddhist temples in Thailand:
Wat Rong Khun (Thai: วัดร่องขุ่น), better known as the White Temple, is a Buddhist temple in Pa O Don Chai, Mueang District, Chiang Rai province, Thailand. Situated outside the city of Chiang Rai , the temple attracts a large number of visitors, both Thai and foreign, making it one of Chiang Rai's most visited attractions.