WatsWat Hua Wiang
วัดหัวเวียง
A Burmese-cast bronze Buddha in a tin-roofed hall in the middle of the market.
Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0What it is
In the centre of Mae Hong Son town, beside the morning market. The image inside is the reason to go in.
The long version
Tradition holds — the principal image, Phra Chao Phara La Khaeng, is held to have been cast in Burma and brought over in sections. Whatever the exact route, the object is not a Lanna casting and it does not look like one.
Inference — what makes this one worth ten minutes rather than a photograph from the road is the setting. It is a working neighbourhood temple in the middle of a market, with a corrugated roof and no ticket, which is a different proposition from a hilltop chedi, and it is where you see what these buildings are for on an ordinary Tuesday.
It is next to the morning market, which means you can do both before eight and be riding by nine.
Runs with
- townMae Hong Son — The town it is the centre of.
- dishThe morning market — Next door, and do that first.
- watWhy the temples here are called Chong — The naming pattern it sits inside.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | tradition | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Mae Hong Son — Wikipedia (en)
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors
- Shan people — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there