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The abbot removed the stucco and found a Buddha figure carved from a green semi-precious stone, which became known as Phra Kaew Morakot or in English the Emerald Buddha. ("Emerald" refers to its "green colour" in Thai, not its composition.) [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Some art historians describe the Emerald Buddha as belonging to the Chiang Saen Style of the ...
Wat Phra Kaew (Thai: วัดพระแก้ว, RTGS: Wat Phra Kaeo, pronounced [wát pʰráʔ kɛ̂ːw] ⓘ), commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, [a] is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand.
The entire area of Phra Kaeo is under the administration of the Subdistrict Administrative Organization (SAO) Phra Kaeo. The seal of SAO Phra Kaeo shows Phra Kaeo Morakot in meditating posture along with the ears of rice adorned as a frame. Lower part is a handshake symbol. [2]
The new Phra Kaew Marakot image, named Phra Yok Chiang Rai, at Wat Phra Kaew, Chiang Rai. In 1990, a new Phra Kaew Marakot image was commissioned and carved in China out of Canadian jade in honor of Somdej Phra Srinagarindra, the Princess Mother's ninetieth birthday. The image is an intentionally close but not exact replica of the Phra Kaew ...
Haw Phra Kaew (Lao: ຫໍພຣະແກ້ວ, pronounced [hɔ̌ː pʰāʔ kɛ̂ːw]; Thai: หอพระแก้ว, pronounced [hɔ̌ː pʰráʔ kɛ̂ːw]), also written as Ho Prakeo, Hor Pha Keo, Ho Phra Kaew, Ho Phra Kaeo and other similar spellings, is a former temple in Vientiane, Laos.
Preah Keo Morakot temple does not have monks, so King Norodom Sihanouk went to live there during the construction of Preah Phnos for a year (on the 14th day of the second month of the year). On Kor Nopvasak, BE 2490 (July 31, 1947), he was ordained as a monk and took the Temple of Preah Keo Morakot as a place of dharma learning in the practice ...
Phra Kaew (Thai: พระแก้ว) may refer to: Wat Phra Kaew, a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand; Wat Phra Kaew, Chiang Rai, a Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand; Haw Phra Kaew, a former Buddhist temple in Vientiane, Laos; Emerald Buddha, the figurine to which the preceding temples' names refer; Phra Kaeo railway station, Bangkok
Prasert na Nagara proposed it was 1517/8. The poem mentions that the Phra Kaeo Morakot, the Emerald Buddha, is resident in Wat Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai, which was true only from 1468 to 1548, and the Phra Sihing Buddha is resident in Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai, which was true only from 1407 to 1548. The only year within these ranges that matches ...