Our tour of pagodas and temples starts in Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom province, not far from Bangkok. There Wat Sam Phran, also known as the Dragon Temple, is an extravagant Buddhist temple and one of ...

There are two types of temples. One is where the moola-virat is ‘swayambhu’, self-formed and self-revealed. The second type of temple is where the vigraha is carved manually and ‘prana pratishta’ is ...