Wat Phra That Doi Kham
Golden hilltop Buddha and relic chedi rooted in a cannibal-giant conversion legend.
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This guide to Wat Phra That Doi Kham in Chiang Mai opens with a Lanna legend of two cannibal giants, Pu Sae and Ya Sae, who ruled this hill before any temple stood here, and the Buddha's visit that talked them out of eating people. It follows the hair relic he is said to have left them, buried inside a chedi raised some thirteen hundred years ago, and what a 1966 rainstorm uncovered when the old stupa finally collapsed. You'll also hear about the annual ceremony that still honors the bargain the giants struck.
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