Golden Mount of Bangkok
Phu Khao Tong, Bangkok, Thailand

   


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The Golden Mount or Phu Khao Tong, is the highest spot in Bangkok up until the 1960s. The mount is within the grounds of the rather dilapidated Wat Saket, which was put up by Rama III just outside the boundary of his new city walls, and served as a crematorium. In the next hundred years, Wat Saket took on the role of a dumping ground for corpses of the sixty thousand victims of a plague whose families were too poor to afford a proper funeral pyre. Rama III added a chedi of the grounds. Unfortunately the soil was too soft that the chedi collapsed a a heap of rubble.



The Golden Mount, Thailand.


As Buddhist law states that religious structures can never be destroyed, fifty years later Rama IV firmed up the structure with another chedi, in which he placed a few Buddhist relics, including what is believed to be the Buddha's teeth. This becomes Phu Khao Tong, or Golden Mount, which is today somewhat dwarfed by Bangkok's skyscrapers.




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