Willy Thorn

A Bangkok Temple Map - for Chinatown (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to every Buddhist Temple in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Equal parts academic history, walking guide & architectural photo essay, it covers 22 temples & one shrine in three itineraries (with maps) for Yaowarat one of the world's largest Chinatowns.

Featured temples include:
. the 400-year old Wat Phlapplah Chai, built by Ayutthaya's great King Narai
. Wat Traimit & the world's largest solid gold Buddha
. the Dragon Lotus Temple, Wat Mangkorn Kamalawat
. Wat Patum Kongka, a longtime royal execution chamber
. a famous Guan Yin temple, originally built as a hospital
. Wat Jakrawat, home to crocodiles & the orphaned golden palladium Phra Bang
. the Ayutthaya-era Wat Bophit Phimuk, which battled cholera & became a holy capital gateway
. Wat Mongkoln Samakhom, the personal chapel of Vietnamese Royalty in exile
. the oldest standing Chinese Monastery in Thailand, Wat Bampen Cheen
. Wat Chayaphumi's beautiful views over the cityscape
. the beloved women behind Wat Thepsirin
. Wat Uphai Raja Bamrung, Siam's Vietnamese Vatican
. the charitable association of the Gwang Dtung shrine
. Wat Kanika Poln, built by a repentant brothel madam
. the historic murals at Wat Disanu Garam
. Wat Sampan Thawong's grandiose imperial splendor
. the alabaster gates of Wat Kanma Tuyaram
. Wat Lokanu Kroh's Buddha collection
. the immigrant-bootstraps success story at Wat Gusoln Samakorn
. Wat Chai Chana Songkram's conquering war hero
. Yaowarat's newest & youngest addition, Wat Thewi Worayat
. Wat Phra Pirent, home to one of the world's greatest Theravada scholars
. a small Jao Mae Guan Yin devotional shrine
. the regional homes of the Dhamma Yutitika Nikai & Annam Nikaya sects
+ at least one Legitimate Chinese Businessmen's Club

Also:
. a retelling of the legend of Phra Bodhisat Awalokitesuan Guan Yin
. a regional history guide for Chinatown
. introductions to the Samphanthawong district
& Sampeng Lane, the original Main Street
& Yaowarat Road, the New Main Street
. information on famous Buddha statues
. a Thai Buddhist architectural guide
with explanations of Chinese temple elements
. history, background & fast facts, for each location
. local wildlife & who to talk to
. hundreds of photos
. free postcards
. directions for getting there via public transit
* GOLD guaranteed

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willy Thorn
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370197415
• Artikelnr.: 48181059

Autorenporträt

Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist. He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok. Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter. He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok. He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography. Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy. He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures. He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome. His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur. His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...