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วัดไหล่หินหลวง / Wat Lai Hin - Lampang

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events

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วัดไหล่หินหลวง 
Luang Wat Lai Hin

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Stone Temple Wat Lai Lai Hin Luang  with glass elephant.

This fairly small wat contains several architectural gems--a traditional Lanna-style viharn and an old ubosot contained within a square enclosure fronted on the east side by a fabulously decorated stucco archway. 
It is the Ubosot that I have concentrated my attention on in this video.
 
The archway and the buildings within were constructed in 1683 by a prince and his followers hailing from Keng Tung, now in Burma. Like numerous other Lanna monasteries, the site of the wat was selected, so the legend goes, by an elephant when it stopped here en route from India with a Buddhist relic.
This is a delightful monastery in a quiet village in rural Lampang Province. By all accounts they do not have many "Farang" visitors here, so I received much heart-felt attention. My guide was the old man, seen in the video who opened up the monastery museum for me, that was a treasure trove of Buddhist reliquiae.

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