Photisarath

Pho Thisarath I. ( Phothisarat, Photisarat, also Potisarasa Kumane, full throne name Somdet Brhat - Anya Budhisara Maha Dharmikadasa Lankanakuna Maharaja Adipati Chakrapati Bhumina Narindra Raja Sri Sadhana Kanayudha; * 1505 Sawa (now Luang Phrabang ); † ( 8 before August ) 1548 Vieng Chan) was 1520-1548 King of Lan Chang.

Pho Thisarath I was the only son of King Visunharat (reigned 1500-1520 ). He received his education at Wat Maha Viharn Visun in Sawa. After his father's death he was crowned his successor and 1522 in Luang Phrabang. In 1523 he assembled a Buddhist council to revise the Tripitaka and to purify. He spent some time 1525-1526 as a Buddhist monk in the temple. In 1533 he moved the capital of Lan Chang to Vieng Chan, today Vientiane, where he built a magnificent capital, but without Luang Phrabang abandon as the official capital.

1540 tried Chairacha King of Ayutthaya Lan Chang to conquer, even Moung could take, but he was repulsed in its transition over the Mekong at the Battle of Sarakham. Later Pho Thisarath was a jealous Buddhist, the religion made ​​the state religion and all remnants of traditional beliefs wiped out throughout the country and destroyed. In Luang Phrabang he left the Wat Sri Suvarna Devalaksana build on the ruins of the Lak Muang Luang Phrabang.

Pho Thisarath married several times

Pho Thisarath I died before August 8, 1548, seven days after an accident with an elephant in Vientiane. He left four sons and four daughters: