Wat Phra Singh Woramahawihan
Lanna-style Buddhist temple sheltering a legendary Sri Lankan Buddha image believed over fifteen hundred years old.
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This guide to Wat Phra Singh Woramahawihan in Chiang Mai opens with a wooden chariot grinding to a halt in the mud sometime in the 1300s, hauling a golden Buddha image sent as a gift from a king in Kamphaeng Phet toward Chiang Mai's ruler. It follows why the statue never moved from that spot again, the modest temple that grew up around it, and the legend tracing the image's origin back to Sri Lanka some fifteen hundred years ago. Look for the golden murals of everyday Lanna village life lining the wooden hall's teak walls.
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