Bangkok temples tours: Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Pho, Wat Arun.

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Bangkok have many temples (Wats) such as architecture, bot, viharn, mondop, ho trai, and chedis.Wat architecture is history about Thailand. The most Thai temples include boundary walls have architecture. The most impotant wat building is the bot(Ubosot) and the largest building in the temples and surround buildings is by the eight boundry stones(Bai Sema) these Bai Sema define the consecreated ground and usually look something like upright gravestones. The Viharn identical to the bot(Ubosot) Inside viharn has Buddha image sometimes two or three minor image as well.

Usually mondop built with a complex and cruciform roof. Ho trai or scripture libraly in the wat usually is small highly decorate. And chedis are generally the most characteristic hallmarks of each architectural period in Thai history.

When to go:

• Daily 8.00 a.m.to 5.30 p.m.

Bangkok temples are famous have 3 temples such as Wat Phra Kaew (The Emerald Buddha), Wat Pho (Temple of Reclining Buddha),Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn), and Wat Phra Kaew (The Emerald Buddha)

Wat Pho (The Temple of the Reclining Buddha) A 16th century temple .It's the oldest, largest and has the most pagodas of any monastery in the city.This Wat was the first open university in Thailand .Wat Pho is known for its giant reclining Buddha, 46 meters long and 15meter high.

Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) Wat Arun is one of Bangkok's best know landmark. It stands on the west bank of the Chao Phraya river in Thonburi. Wat Arun is best from the opposite bank of the river, it glistens in the sunlight during the day and stands dark and noble at dawn or dusk. A visit to the beautiful monastery complex surrounding the familiar towers is very worth-while. These towers, the Pra Prang although best known the only part of Wat Arun. It also contains narrow lanes,elegants old white buildings shrines pools of turtiesand to fine giants, Yuk Wat Jaeng mortal enemies of the Yuk Wat Pho across the river.

Emerald Buddha temple (Wat Phra Kaeo) According to legend, the Emerald Buddha was created in India in 43 BC by Nagasena in the city of Pataliputra (today Patna). The legends state that after remaining in Pataliputra for three hundred years, it was taken to Sri Lanka to save it from a civil war. In 457, King Anuruth of Burma sent a mission to Ceylon to ask for Buddhist scriptures and the Emerald Buddha, in order to support Buddhism in his country.

These requests were granted, but the ship lost its way in a storm during the return voyage and landed in Cambodia. When the Thais captured Angkor Wat in 1432 (following the ravage of the bubonic plague), the Emerald Buddha was taken to Ayutthaya, Kamphaeng Phet, Laos and finally Chiang Rai, where the ruler of the city hid it. Cambodian historians recorded capture of the Buddha statue in their famous Preah Ko Preah Keo legend.

However, some art historians describe the Emerald Buddha as belonging to the Chiang Saen Style of the 15th Century AD, which would mean it is actually of Lannathai origin. Historical sources indicate that the statue surfaced in northern Thailand in the Lannathai kingdom in 1434. One account of its discovery tells that lightning struck a pagoda in a temple in Chiang Rai, after which, something became visible beneath the stucco. The Buddha was dug out, and the people believed the figurine to be made of emerald, hence its name.

King Sam Fang Kaen of Lannathai wanted it in his capital, Chiang Mai, but the elephant carrying it insisted, on three separate occasions, on going instead to Lampang. This was taken as a divine sign and the Emerald Buddha stayed in Lampang until 1468, when it was finally moved to Chiang Mai, where it was kept at Wat Chedi Luang. The Emerald Buddha remained in Chiang Mai until 1552, when it was taken to Luang Prabang, then the capital of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang. Some years earlier, the crown prince of Lan Xang, Setthathirath, had been invited to occupy the vacant throne of Lannathai. However, Prince Setthathirath also became king of Lan Xang when his father, Photisarath, died. He returned home, taking the revered Buddha figure with him. In 1564, King Setthathirath moved it to his new capital at Vientiane. In 1779, the Thai General Chao Phraya Chakri put down an insurrection, captured Vientiane and returned the Emerald Buddha to Siam, taking it with him to Thonburi. After he became King Rama I of Thailand, he moved the Emerald Buddha with great ceremony to its current home in Wat Phra Kaew on March 22, 1784. It is now kept in the main building of the temple, the Ubosoth.

Marble temple or Wat Benchamabopitr is located in Dusit. Building began 1899, shortly after half-brother, Prince Narris, to design him a temple. The Marble temple is one of the best temples in Bangkok to see religious festivals and rituals. The Ubosot hall was constructed from Carrara marble from Italy. Wat Benchamabopitr is just a two-hundred-metre walk south of the zoo's Thanon Rama V entrance, or about 600m from Vimanmeak's U-Thong gate. Coming by bus 70 from Banglamphu, get of at the crossroads in front of the Rama V statue and walk east along Thanon Sri Ayutthaya.

Benchamabopitr Dusitvanaram (simply called Wat Benchamabopitr) or “The Marble Temple” as known to foreigners is most satisfactory architecturally with its symmetry and lovely proportions. The Uposatha Hall (Bot or Ordination Hall) was constructed from Carrara marble from Italy and showing distinct European neo-classical influence. It was designed by H.R.H. Prince Narisranuvattivongse, half brother to King Chulalongkorn, Rama V, and has been reckoned for its architectural and decorative arts of finest Thai craftsmanship, say, second to none in the world. It attracts the interest of tourists throughout the world to come to visit with a large number each year.

Wat Benchamabopitr is a royal monastry belonging to first class ranking of Rajavaravihara. It covers the area of about 12 acres, locating in Dusit District of central Bangkok with just a distance of five to ten minute-walking to H.M. the King’s Chitralada Palace in the northeast, Dusit Palace and the Parliament House in the North-west, and the Government House in the south. The four main roads passing nearby the temple are the Rama V Road in the east, Sri Ayudhya Road in the north, Rajadamnuennok Avenue in the west, and Phitsanulok Road in the South.

Wat Benchamabopitr was founded by King Chulalongkorn, Rama V of the Chakri Dynastry on 1 March 1900 (counded as Thai 1899). The layout was very well-planned and demarcated by Buddha quarter (Buddhavas like the Uposatha Hall, etc.), monk living quarter (Sanghavas like the monk cells, schools, etc.), and lay helper living quarter outside the southern fence.

Interesting inside fusion of Thai classical and nineteenth-century European design, with its Carrara marble walls.

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