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Tour This Tranquil Buddhist Island Temple of Giant Statues



Thailand is home to over 40,000 Buddhist temples, but none of them is quite like Wat Plai Laem. Completed in 2004, the site is a collection of temples and statues located on Koh Samui, Thailand’s second largest island. Wat Plai Laem’s temples are active, set in a tranquil location, where quiet reflection is encouraged and appropriate attire is a must. One of the temple’s most eye-catching figures is a nearly 100-foot tall statue of Buddha, painted in bright red, white and gold. But the main statue is the Buddhist goddess of compassion and mercy, Guanyin. There, she is represented with 18 arms, which shows her ability to help many people in need at once.

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– [Narrator] In Thailand, there are over 40,000 Buddhist temples, but there’s only one that looks quite like this. Completed in 2004, Wat Plai Laem is a collection of temples and statues located on Koh Samui, Thailand’s second largest island. These are active temples in a tranquil place where quiet reflection is encouraged and appropriate attire is a must. One of the most eye-catching figures is the statue of the Buddha, which is 30 meters high and painted in bright red, white, and gold. The main statue at Wat Plai Laem is the Buddhist goddess of compassion and mercy, Guan Yin. Here, she’s represented with 18 arms, which shows her ability to help many people in need at once. The temple is surrounded by a lake filled with hungry fish. Visitors who make a donation to the temple are given a bag of fish food. People also buy fish and turtles at the local food market and release them into the lake. Buddhists consider it an act of spiritual merit, and the fish and turtles do, too.

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  8. @seanchristopher2150

    Pagan Heathens = Buddhists. You can't be that stupid Thailand!

    "Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:29-31

  9. @carlosmedlen6685

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  19. @nket6401

    Dekho pakhandi log jinhe tum dhandhe ke liye apne bhagwaan bna baithe ho vo sb gautam buddha ki virasat thi, jinhe brahman log ne churaya 🙏🙏 ye tumhare brahmand ke nirmata bhagwaan nhi hai 🙏🙏 gautam buddha ki virasat hai 🙏

  20. @nket6401

    Yaha jo bhi ganpati, vishnu, shankar dikhenge vo sb budhist sanskruti hai, na koi shankar tha, na ganpati, na vishnu 🙏🙏 hi du log dekh lo, buddhist sanskruti hai ye 🙏🙏🙏🙏 tum log ne INDIA mei buddhism se sabkuch churaake chamatkaari bhagwaan banaye, aur dhanda chalu kiye 🙏🙏🙏

  26. @seanp8220

    completed in 2004 but … probably built by ancient civilizations we know nothing about

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  30. @ahdumbs1161

    A) first statue is Budai, a Mahayana-Chan Buddhist monk, who in SOME Mahayana sects and few Theravadins believe is an incarnation of the BODHISATTVA to come when the Dhamma of our age is no more, Maitreya. He will only become a Buddha when the teachings of this Buddha disappear and we are meant to learn the Maitreya dharma.

    B) “Budai” is a word that refers to essentially a satchel or bag carried on a pole; he was known to always have gifts for children and hence why he “always had a Budai with him”

    3) the argument about how many Buddhas there are were/will be/are is a moot point because to Theravadins, Siddhartha is one of a finite number of Buddhas, there being a number (again depends, can be like 27-38) having existed before his time. To the Mahayana, there are thousands of Bodhisattvas and even Buddhas from alternate universes.

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