Bangkok Temple Tours

Here is a great shot from Wat Mahathat, one of the not so well-known temples in Bangkok. It shows a row of golden Buddha statues sitting in a position that refers to an episode from the life of the Buddha.

This is one of the most common postures of the Buddha that you can see in Thailand. It represents steadfastness, the ability to remain calm even when things around you are going crazy. In modern words, you could translate it as “not loosing your cool” or “keeping a cool head”

He was sitting in meditation when demons came to challenge him. They wanted to break his state of meditation. The main demon was named Mara, and he tried to distract the Buddha with all kinds of means – including frightening evil demons, but also beautiful ones in the form of young women who tried to seduce him.

But the Buddha instead called the earth as his witness and proclaimed his meritorious past. The earth goddess Thorani appeared thereupon. She wringed the water from her hair and the water that dropped from her hair created a flood that drowned Mara and his other demons.

If you find this interesting, you might want to book a Bangkok temple tour with us, where we tell you all these stories and explain the details of gestures and meanings, the architecture of temples and so on.

This is a picture from the Wat Pra Kaew temple in Bangkok, Thailand. It depicts a mytical figure holding something in his hand that looks like a CD – but of course, it’s not. It’s one of those special weapons that you might have seen in one of the James Bond movies, that you can throw like a frisbee and cut someone’s head or extremeties off. I guess with the right hinge mechanism, you could also use it to slice pizza