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Temple & Chinese Shrine Tour
To visit Phuket's temples and Chinese's shine , you can join a program city tour that will include a visit to one of Phuket's main Buddhist temples. Of course you might prefer to hire Andaman Sriraksa Travel Servicetransportation and go at your own pace. Lastly, temples do not charge an entrance fee, but they do have donation boxes for you to make some merit. Money will go towards upkeep of the temple and the temple's charitable activities. On visiting a Thai temple, there are a few rules that all visitors should follow :
- You should dress neatly when visiting any temple in Thailand. Men and women should not wear shorts or sleeveless shirts. Women in particular should avoid wearing revealing attire around monks.
- Monks are forbidden to have physical contact, or to receive an object directly from a woman. To hand something to a monk a woman should place the object within reach of the monk, or give it to a man who can then hand it to the monk.
- When entering any building within a monastery shoes must be removed. And when sitting in a temple, never point your feet towards any images of the Buddha.
- You should bear in mind that despite the number of tourists that may be walking around taking pictures, a temple is a place of worship and a quiet sanctuary for the monks and devotees. You should be sensitive to cultural and religious considerations.
Chalong Temple or Wat Chalong
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is the largest of Phuket's temples, and the most visited. Locals come to pray and pay respects to the founders of Wat Chalong, among them Luang Pho Cham and Luang Pho Chuang, 2 monks who were well known for herbal medicine and took care of local villagers and negotiated for a settlement during a chinese miners rebellion in the 1870's. It's a big place, with several buildings including the main temple, with statues of the revered monks where people can pray, apply gold leaf to the statues, light incense and candles etc.. There is another building with a tall tower, in which one finds painted walls with scenes from the life of Buddha and many Buddha images. At the top of the tower is what is said to be a fragement of bone of Buddha himself. There is also an airconditioned building containing waxworks of the monks. Chalong is well worth a visit, and want a quiet time. |
Nakkerd Hill
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The Big Buddha on Nakkerd Hill (380m high) near Chalong is already a spectacle and it's not completed yet. When finished, the Big Buddha, "Phra Buddha Mingmongkhol Ake Nagakhiri", will stand 45 meters high and 24.5 meters wide, the largest Buddha image in Thailand. The Big Buddha is being constructed not only as a guardian of the island and to signify the three jewels of; Buddha, Dharma (teaching) and Sangha (monk), also to honor King Bhumibol on his 80th birthday. There is a smaller, golden Buddha behind the large one, which is dedicated to Queen Sirikit. This is made of gold-alloyed is 5.49 meters wide, 12.49 meters high and weighs 22 tones. The Big Buddha is visible for miles around Phuket and once clad in the 135 tones of white marble, donated by Burma, will shimmer in the sunlight, set off by a gold pinnacle on his head. The views from the hill top are stunning and if you can get a clear day, you will get some great photographs. The big Buddha is also the site of a temple, so when visiting, please observe the dress code for temples, meaning no sleeveless tops, no stomach showing and nothing above the knee, better still, something long for women. You are welcome to donate anything from blue metal chips for concrete to white marble tiles for the cladding. When you donate anything, you can write your name onto some gold foil, which is built into the Buddha. Afterwards, you can go to receive a blessing from the monk in the temple there. |
Phra Nang Sang Temple
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the oldest Buddhist temple on Phuket and was built when Thalang was still the capital of the island. The grounds of this historic temple are where the Battle of Thalang took place in 1785, when the local people fought off Burmese invaders. It is rumored that the Burmese were after the temple's Lai Tong, religious manuscripts which are folded like an accordion. These manuscripts were believed to contain treasure maps which the Burmese wanted to find. The temple is sometimes referred to as the “Temple of the White Blood” because of a woman who according to folklore, bled white blood when she was cut. The ordination hall is dedicated to her. |
Phra Tong Temple
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the second most important temple on Phuket. Its fame is derived from a magic statue of the Buddha (Phra Tong means “golden Buddha”). The statue is in a seated position but is only exposed up to the middle of the chest. Though claimed to be made of solid gold, the statue is more likely made of brick, cement and plaster, with a thin layer of gold leaf covering it.The legend surrounding the statues says that anyone who tries to dig up the statue will suffer terrible misfortune or death. Therefore, a cast of cement and plaster was placed over the statue to prevent further attempts to remove it and a both (temple hall) was built to house the statue. The statue remains half buried in the middle of the hall and is subject of great reverence by local people. |
Jui Tui Shrine
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is much more ornate and stately. You just have to walk through the gate in the left temple compound wall of Put Jaw Temple. The Jui Tui Temple is dedicated to a vegetarian god, Kiew Ong , whose statue can be admired on the altar. His red face colour does not indicate fierceness but, according to Chinese symbolism, benevolence. Also interesting are the carved entrance doors of the temple. dedicated to vegetarian god Kiew Ong and home of the hew holey (holy fire), Jui Tui Shrine at the corner of Ranong Road and Soi Phutorn, hosts the blessings and ceremonies to initiate the vegetarian festival. In the courtyard are the sedan chair and chariots to convey the deity during the procession through the streets of Old Phuket and then down to the shrine at Saphan Hin. |
Put Jaw Temple
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the oldest Chinese temple in Phuket. It is dedicated to Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy. Put Jaw Temple is not particularly sophisticated from an architectonic point of view, but nevertheless interesting. The middle hall holds an image of Kuan Yin and several fortune telling devices, such as a pair of wooden blocks that are dropped by the devotees to the floor. Depending on which side they fall on, the answer to a question is "yes" or "no". There are also two cans with sticks that have to be shaken until one of the sticks comes out. Each stick has a number and in the room left to the main hall are boxes where the devotee can find paper slips (also with numbers written on them) with good advice that suits his or or problem. Do not forget to leave a donation (it is used for the upkeep of Put Jaw) - the temple's guardian will ring a little bell when you put the money in the box. |
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Sire Temple |
Bang-Neaw Shrine |
SangDham Shrine |
Kathu Shrine |
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