Is This The Biggest Buddha in Thailand?
Is this the biggest Buddha image in Thailand ?
The seated Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin statue located at Wat Muang in Ang Thong Province, some two hours north of Bangkok & an hour north of Ayutthaya may well lay claim to that honour.
Or view the video on the server at: http://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/Biggest_Buddha_In_Thailand.flv
Check out the short video & look out for the signs that show just how large this statue really is!
The Theravada Buddhism statue towers over both the temple Wat Muang & its surrounding area. Also located at the temple is the aptly named “Hell Park” which is a large “Buddhist Theme Park” full of macabre scenes of mutilation & death depicted through large colorful figures all set in different themed scenes!
The “ubosoth“, which is the holiest prayer room at any temple, also known as the “ordination hall” of Wat Muang is surrounded by the biggest lotus petals in the world, there is also a huge golden statue of Kwan Yin the Chinese female Buddhist symbol.
*Many thanks to my good friend Heather Hapeta at The Kiwi Travel Writer for allowing us to share her wonderful copyrighted photos*
Ang Thong is one of the “Central Provinces” of Thailand its name means “golden basin” in Thai which is a reference to geographical layout of the region & the golden color of the rice grown throughout this fertile area.
How to get to the Wat Muang which houses the biggest Buddha in Thailand is easy just take the Asian Highway from Bangkok.
Source: http://www.visit-chiang-mai-online.com/biggest-buddha-thailand.html
Hey, this will be the right one for my garden. *ggg*
It’s MASSIVE!! May Kechara’s world peace centre be equally beneficial to this region
Four months on, this massive Buddha statue in Thailand has been completed. Click here for more photos of this magnificent Thai Buddha
http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/2010/07/phra-buddha-maha-nawamin-at-wat-muang.html
Large Buddha statues are pervasive throughout the different schools and lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Just think about the Kamakura Budda in Japan, the Lantau Islnd Buddha in Hong Kong, the Wat Muang Buddha in Thai and in the future, the Tsongkhapa Buddha in KWPC!
Large Buddha images are said to bless the surrounding area, improve the feng shui, calm the energy and of coures, plant seeds in all those who see it… and with this Thai Buddha statue, a great many will have seen it!
Beng’s right, same goes with the statues we will have in Kechara World Peace Centre! Lama Tsongkhapa (bigger than Yong He Gong!), Dzambala and Tara…can you imagine the immense peace, stability and prosperity that such large representations of enlightened mind and activity will bring to the region? Lama Tsongkhapa himself is already said to have a stabilising effect in areas where his image is found.
And imagine the kind of blessings and merits one will gain from prostrating and circumambulating the statues. They will be filled with hundreds of thousands of smaller statues, mantras, holy relics, chakras…filled by Kechara Saraswati Arts staff and volunteers perhaps? We already know that Kechara Discovery are going to be making the statues…they’re all practising via making the Kechara House gompa statues