Ancient hill near Wat Pa Daeng

Terrain

General Condition

The ancient monument hill near Wat Pa Daeng is an abandoned ancient site. It is located outside Chiang Mai city to the west. It is about 2 kilometers from the west moat around the hill of the ancient monument near Wat Pa Daeng. "Huan Por Liang" which is the land of the people.

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Ping River

Geological conditions

Geological conditions in the Chiang Mai Basin are very diverse, from complex igneous rocks, volcanic rocks, metamorphic rocks, and sedimentary rocks of various ages over 600 million years, to the unsolved sandstone sediments on the central plains of the Recent Basin that are approximately 10,000-20,000 years ago, which included most of the plains that were now farms and dwellings (Saraswati Ongsakul 2000 :2-3)

Archaeological Era

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Archaeological age

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

The hill of the ancient Chedi Wat Pa Daeng Luang is a large chedi. Located in the area of ​​the people's land, next to the building "Huan Por Liang" looks like a large hill about 10 meters high, covered with soil. There was a large tree covering the ancient hill.

The general condition was renovated into a garden. surrounded by barbed wire The architectural features of the chedi were not found. Only the octagonal base remains (Department of Fine Arts 2016; Thanatorn Liamvanich 2010)

According to the history in the document, it is assumed that this temple is probably Pa Daeng Luang Temple. It is a temple that enters the Pa Daeng sect of Buddhism. There are buildings spread over a wide area. But now it has been disturbed by the late construction (Thanathorn Liamwanich 2010:291). Evidence in historical documents shows that Phayat Lokkarat (1985-2031) built Wat Pa Daeng Luang to contain the royal father's ashes. (Phaya Sam Fang Kaen) and Queen Mother during which the Buddhist situation at that time In Chiang Mai, a new sect of monks was born. known as the Sinhalese sect with the bible A traveler to study Buddhism from Sinhala in the Indian subcontinent which has a different practice from the monks of the Raman sect of Wat Suan Dok (Buppharam) originally that Phra Sumon Thera from Sukhothai traveled to propagate in the reign of Phaya Kue Na (1910-1931), the center of the new Sinhalese Buddhism sect is located at Wat Pa Daeng Luang. known as the Bureau of Wat Pa Daeng In addition, it was found that the motto was to build a temple named Pa Daeng in the important provinces of the Lanna region. such as in Phayao Chiang Rai and Chiang Saen, etc. (Department of Fine Arts 2016)