Qualla: Wat Phra That Phanom https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/4/2/wat-phra-that-phanom-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wat Phra That Phanom https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom Wat Phra That Phanom: Introduction https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom/ Photo credit ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เทวประภาส มากคล้าย, Public domain. At 7:38 on the evening of 11 August 1975, the great stupa of That Phanom came down. It had been failing since March, when an earthquake opened cracks in the fabric, and then several days of heavy rain finished the argument. What went over was not a monument in the museum sense. Buddhists across northeastern Thailand and across the river in Laos believed, and still believe, that the tower held the Phra Uranghathat, the breast bone of the Buddha, carried here from India. A whole region woke up the next morning to find the centre of its religious world lying in a heap beside the Mekong.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/4/2/wat-phra-that-phanom-wp/w742-wat-phra-that-phanom-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wat Phra That Phanom: Four Years and a Kilo Count of Gold https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom/ Photo credit Pawyi Lee, Public domain. Rebuilding began almost immediately, paid for partly by the Royal Thai Government and partly by public subscription, which is the polite phrase for hundreds of thousands of ordinary people sending what they could. The work was finished on 23 March 1979. King Bhumibol Adulyadej an...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/4/2/wat-phra-that-phanom-wp/w742-wat-phra-that-phanom-four-years-and-a-kilo-count-of-gold.mp3 0:06 2 full Wat Phra That Phanom: The Chronicle and the Trowel https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom/ Photo credit Pawyi Lee, Public domain. Two accounts of this place sit side by side and neither has displaced the other. The That Phanom Chronicle records that the stupa was raised eight years after the Buddha's passing by five kings of the Mon kingdom known as Sri Gotupura. In the fuller legend the Buddha instructs hi...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/4/2/wat-phra-that-phanom-wp/w742-wat-phra-that-phanom-the-chronicle-and-the-trowel.mp3 0:06 3 full Wat Phra That Phanom: Four Styles in One Tower https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom/ Photo credit Pawyi Lee, Public domain. Look at the stupa and you are looking at a committee of centuries. The fabric combines Dvaravati, Khmer and Cham elements; the original tower went up in Khmer style before the twelfth century and was later reworked toward the Lao pagoda form that dominates its silhouette today. I...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/4/2/wat-phra-that-phanom-wp/w742-wat-phra-that-phanom-four-styles-in-one-tower.mp3 0:06 4 full Wat Phra That Phanom: Nine Days and Nine Nights https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom/ Photo credit Pawyi Lee, Public domain. The annual festival runs from the eighth waxing day of the third lunar month to the first waning day, nine days and nine nights, and it fills the small riverside town of That Phanom past capacity. Pilgrims arrive from both banks. In Thai folk Buddhism the stupa has a particular c...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/4/2/wat-phra-that-phanom-wp/w742-wat-phra-that-phanom-nine-days-and-nine-nights.mp3 0:06 5 full Wat Phra That Phanom: The View From the Water https://qualla.com/wat-phra-that-phanom/ Photo credit Pawyi Lee, Public domain. That Phanom is a border district. The Mekong forms its eastern edge, and the Lao province of Khammouane begins on the far bank, close enough that the two sides have shared this shrine for as long as anyone can document. Thailand has placed the stupa and its associated buildings a...

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