{"id":512,"date":"2015-10-02T05:34:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2015-10-02T05:39:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:39:14","slug":"the-white-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"The White Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our second day in Thailand, \u00a0we visited the\u00a0Wat at Rong Khun, commonly known as the “White Temple”, in Chiang Rai, about 3+ hours from our hotel.\u00a0 Anyone who has seen the Gaudi-designed cathedral being built in Barcelona would correlate the White Temple to the “Gaudi of Buddhism”.\u00a0 One of Thailand’s most famous artists, Ajarn Chalermchai Kositpipat,\u00a0decided to build a 16 building temple complex with his own funds about 20 years ago.\u00a0 The primary temple and crematorium are completed; however, there\u00a0continues to be\u00a0ongoing building.\u00a0 Most temples in Thailand are gold but the only gold building in this complex is the “Happy Building” (restroom facilities).<\/p>\n

The drive back, after visiting the Miramar, Laos & Thailand border(the “Golden Triangle”), was very\u00a0long with a rest stop at an interesting\u00a0small chain of restaurants called\u00a0Cabbage & Condoms.\u00a0 A portion of the restaurants’ profits goes to\u00a0HIV\/Aids victims.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The White Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hands<\/a>
Hands reaching up from Hell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"White<\/a>
White Temple walkway (white stone with implanted mirrors)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"White<\/a>
White buddha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Crematorium<\/a>
Crematorium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of many faces<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"People's<\/a>
People’s metal prayer requests are hung forever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Happy<\/a>
Happy Building!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Thailand,<\/a>
Thailand, Miramar & Laos border (The Golden Triangle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Interesting<\/a>
Interesting concept.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Marketing<\/a>
Marketing at its best.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On our second day in Thailand, \u00a0we visited the\u00a0Wat at Rong Khun, commonly known as the “White Temple”, in Chiang Rai, about 3+ hours from our hotel.\u00a0 Anyone who has seen the Gaudi-designed cathedral being built in Barcelona would correlate the White Temple to the “Gaudi of Buddhism”.\u00a0 One of Thailand’s most famous artists, Ajarn … Continue reading The White Temple<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Si9J-8g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}