Re: To DKJ on different btw Vat Pra Keo in BKK and Hor Pra Keo in VTE

On May 29, 8:14 pm, dkj-ດກຈ <dkj.l...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pao,

Your explanation here is quite clear for all what is difference in the
term of Vat and Hor.
It might be that you left Laos for long or missed some facts of Pra
Keo Morakot's history.
Lao people used to call this place "Vat Pra Keo" two hundred (plus)
years ago, before the Thai Siam took the real Emerald Buddha to BKK.
Since then, Lao people call the rebuilt house of the fake one “Hor Pra
Keo”, at the same time, when people call “Vat Pra Keo” meant the
temple of the real “Emerald Buddha” in BKK. That’s all, doc.

To be a doctor is neither meant to know every thing nor to be a good
historian.

dkj


I have been out of Laos for more than 30+ years so I don't know much
about Pha
Keo Morakot's history. All I know is from my reading... so please
educate me more if you have any specific fact & information.
Thanks...

Here is just links to the history of Pha Keo:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/deva.deep/images/Central_Thailand/Bangkok/Grand_Palace_complex/Emerald_Buddha-Phra_Mondop/s04-020011224-0846%20Bangkok%20Phra%20Kaew%2027crsh.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha
History:

According to legend, the Emerald Buddha was created in India in 43 BC
by Nagasena in the city of Pataliputra (today Patna). The legends
state that after remaining in Pataliputra for three hundred years, it
was taken to Sri Lanka to save it from a civil war. In 457, King
Anuruth of Burma sent a mission to Ceylon to ask for Buddhist
scriptures and the Emerald Buddha, in order to support Buddhism in his
country. These requests were granted, but the ship lost its way in a
storm during the return voyage and landed in Cambodia. When the Thais
captured Angkor Wat, the Emerald Buddha went to Ayutthaya, Kamphaeng
Phet, Laos and finally Chiang Rai, where the ruler of the city hid it.
However, some art historians describe the Emerald Buddha as belonging
to the Chiang Saen Style of the 15th Century AD, which would mean it
is actually of Lannathai origin.

Historical sources indicate that the statue surfaced in northern
Thailand in the Lannathai kingdom in 1434. One account of its
discovery tells that lightning struck a pagoda in a temple in Chiang
Rai, after which something became visible beneath the stucco. The
Buddha was dug out and the people believed the figurine to be made of
emerald, hence its name. King Sam Fang Kaen of Lannathai wanted it in
his capital, Chiang Mai, but the elephant carrying it insisted, on
three separate occasions, on going instead to Lampang. This was taken
as a divine sign and the Emerald Buddha stayed in Lampang until 1468,
when it was finally moved to Chiang Mai, where it was kept at Wat
Chedi Luang.

The Emerald Buddha remained in Chiang Mai until 1552, when it was
taken to Luang Prabang, then the capital of the Lao kingdom of Lan
Xang. Some years earlier, the crown prince of Lan Xang, Setthathirath,
had been invited to occupy the vacant throne of Lannathai. However,
Prince Setthathirath also became king of Lan Xang when his father,
Photisarath, died. He returned home, taking the revered Buddha figure
with him. In 1564, King Setthathirath moved it to his new capital at
Vientiane.

In 1779, the Thai General Chao Phraya Chakri captured Vientiane and
brought the Emerald Buddha back with him to Thonburi. After he became
King Rama I of Thailand, he moved the Emerald Buddha with great
ceremony to its current home in Wat Phra Kaew on March 22, 1784. It is
now kept in the main building of the temple, the Ubosoth.

http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/seasia/bangkok/rp07.html
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/9149/prakaew.html
http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/thai_article/2210_phra_%20kaeo_%20morakot/phra_kaeo_morakot.html

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