Wat Chedi Luang

Wat Chedi Luang ( Thai วัด เจดีย์ หลวง, about the royal temple stupa ) is a Buddhist temple ( Wat ) in Chiang Mai Province Chiang Mai. He is a Royal Temple Class Three.

Location

Wat Chedi Luang is located in the center of Chiang Mai. Originally there were three temples: Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Ho Tham and the Wat Sukmin.

Architectural History

Wat Chedi Luang was begun in the 14th century, when King Saen Muang Ma here wanted to keep his father's ashes. However, after ten years of construction, the building remained unfinished. Only when the king died himself, his widow continued the construction. Probably due to consummate static problems King Tilokaratcha the plant until the middle of the 15th century. The building at the time was 82 feet high and had a diameter at the base of 54 meters, so it was at that time the tallest building in Lan Na.

1468 of the Emerald Buddha was installed in the niche eastward. After an earthquake in 1545 the structure of the upper 30 meters collapsed. Shortly thereafter, in 1551, we spent the Emerald Buddha to Luang Prabang, Northern Laos.

In the early 1990s the chedi was reconstructed with the help of UNESCO and the Government of Japan. The result was somewhat controversial, as new elements are held in central Thai - style and not in the typical Lanna style. For the 600 - year anniversary of the chedi in 1995, a copy of the Emerald Buddha made ​​from black jade was placed in the eastern niche. This icon will be officially opened by the locals but called Phra Phut Chaloem Sirirat short Phra Yok.

Attractions

• The Viharn Luang was built in 1412 by Tiloka - Chuda, the mother of King Sam Fang Kaen. In 1577, he was replaced by King Tilokarat by a 18 × 38 -square-meter building, which was built later but again after a fire at the old place. Since this building was made of wood, it was founded in 1889 as in need of repair that it was demolished by King Intha Wichayanon again and rebuilt. The present building dates from Chao Kaeo Nawarat. He left in 1928, the previous building torn down and the following year was again inaugurated a 19.7 × 50.8 square enlarged Viharn. The main Buddha statue in the Viharn Phra Chao Luang named Attarot ( Eighteen - Kubit Buddha) was poured at the same time, as are the two statues of the disciples of the Buddha flanking the Phra Attarot. Phra Attarot is 8.23 meters high, the statue of Mogallana is 4.43 meters and 4.19 meters of Sariputta. Supposedly to have been made ​​at the same time for several more seated statues that today are grouped around the three standing statues. The place north of the temple, where the statues were cast, was leveled later and the current temple Wat Pantao built.

Swell

• Carol Stratton: Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand. Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai 2004, ISBN 1-932476-09-1
• Phra Buddhaphotchanavarabhorn: A Guide to Wat Chedi Luang. Wat Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai 1995. (Brochure published on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the temple )