Wat Xieng Thong
1560
Vernacular
temple
Wat Xieng Thong is the royal Buddhist monastery that King Setthathirath founded between 1559 and 1560 near the confluence of the Mekong and the Nam Khan in Luang Prabang, just before he transferred the Lao capital toward Vientiane. The…
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- 1800-1999
The monastery remained tied to royal ritual and funerary processions through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with successive redecoration of the sim and chapels.
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- Felix Stahlberg · CC BY 2.0
- Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol) · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Balon Greyjoy · Public domain
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