In our plans for today – to visit the mountain of the Golden Buddha in Pattaya. For Thais, this is a sacred place. There the largest rock image appears to have been built Buddhas We will also be interested in the unique beauty surrounding nature. It was created quite recently, in 1996. ThenTyland celebrated the fiftieth anniversary reign of his King Bhumibon Adulyadej IX. The figure of the saint, which height is 160 meters and width at the knees closed Buddha’s feet – seventy, carved into the rock in just two days from using laser technology.
After the erection of the Buddha image on Mount Khao Chi Chan, the resort town of Pattaya, which is from her in 15 km, became not only a tourist center, but also a place of worship for the Thais themselves. His loyal attitude to the King and a religious thrill in front of the Buddha they expressed by decorating gorususalny gold. This is the only precedent in all. the buddhist world when the mountain of golden buddda located under open air, decorated in a similar way. For tourists mountain in the slope of which is carved image of the Buddha, called “mountain Golden Buddha “, but officially its name is much more magnificent and solemn: “His Majesty the Buddha is beautiful and chaste as Maha Vachira. ”
For the Thais, such embellishment became really a religious sacrifice – on such a large Golden Buddha image had to spend gold totaling about three million dollars. Of this impressive amount for Thailand, almost a third was collected by locals. At the foot of the mountain magnificent, orientally lush, garden and there are two lakes, smooth surface which is decorated with flowering lotuses.
The whole atmosphere of the park on the mountain of Golden Buddha in Pattaya promotes peace and meditation. But this does not mean that all given at the mercy of Divine Providence, which will protect surrounding beauty. The place that is royal The family Thailand considers its “home church”, guarded by the thai guard. This park is open not only for monarchs, here they can worship their deities and simple Thais For this, many places are organized where you can pray and make offerings Allowed there and tourists.
Oddly enough, but it is the tourists who are here most of all. String tourist buses stretching to the Golden The buddhas are just endless. Thais calmly relate to endless photo shoots of Russians, Chinese, Japanese. They believe that touching their deity can spiritually enrich everyone. However, their tolerance should not be abused.
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Video shooting of Khao Chi-chan mountain from quadrocopter
Mount Khao Chi Chang on the map
Golden Mountain Buddhas (khao chee chang) in pattaya
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