Wat Mahadhatu Yuvaraj Rangsarit Rajavaramahavihar
Royal Buddhist temple enshrining a Buddha relic, home to Thailand's oldest monastic university.
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This guide to Wat Mahadhatu in Bangkok opens in 1889, when a row of young monks sat down to a lesson that went beyond chanting, in a school King Chulalongkorn had founded beside his own Grand Palace. It reaches back to the temple's earlier life as Wat Salak, older than the city itself, and to how it rose to one of only six royal temples of the highest grade. Best heard while walking the galleries and the ordination hall.
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