Tourist attraction
Wat Plai Laem
Thirty-metre laughing Buddha and eighteen-armed Guanyin rise over a lake full of fish.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wat Plai Laem on Koh Samui follows the thirty-metre laughing Buddha watching over the temple lake, and the real Chinese monk behind him. It traces his tenth-century wanderings during the Later Liang dynasty, his cloth sack of food and gifts, and the claim made shortly before his death that linked him to Maitreya, the future Buddha. Along the way it turns to the eighteen-armed Guanyin statue across the water and the temple's Thai-Chinese roots. Listen at the water's edge, with a bag of fish food in hand.
This audio guide was created using AI.