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Wiang Tha Khan, located 16km south of Chiang Mai in rural Sanpatong District, is a small and prosperous Northern Thai village set amid Lamyai plantations and inhabited by Tai Yong resettled from nearby Shan State in Burma at the beginning of the 19th century. As long ago as the 10th century CE it was a fortified city or ‘wiang’ serving as an outlying bastion of the Mon Kingdom of Haripunchai, today’s Lamphun. Today the remains of the city walls and surrounding moat survive amid the Lamyai plantations and rice fields, as well as the remains of 11 separate temples founded during the Mon Period (c. 9th-12th centuries CE), but dating in their present form from the Tai Kingdom of Lan Na (12th -16th centuries CE).<br/><br/> The most important site includes Wat Klang Muang, located in the centre of the village, with a small museum. Other more important temples include Wat Ubosot, Wat Ton Kok and Ku Mai Daeng. The entire complex was surveyed and restored by the Thai Fine Arts Department in the 1980s, and a record of their finding was published (in Thai) in 1991.<br/><br/> Wiang Tha Kan may be seen as a similar Mon outpost to nearby Wiang Kum Kam, located about 6km south of Chiang Mai on the Lamphun Road, a similarly fortified settlement guarding the Mon capital at Haripunchai. Two other fortified Mon settlements remain to be excavated.
Wiang Tha Khan, located 16km south of Chiang Mai in rural Sanpatong District, is a small and prosperous Northern Thai village set amid Lamyai plantations and inhabited by Tai Yong resettled from nearby Shan State in Burma at the beginning of the 19th century. As long ago as the 10th century CE it was a fortified city or ‘wiang’ serving as an outlying bastion of the Mon Kingdom of Haripunchai, today’s Lamphun. Today the remains of the city walls and surrounding moat survive amid the Lamyai plantations and rice fields, as well as the remains of 11 separate temples founded during the Mon Period (c. 9th-12th centuries CE), but dating in their present form from the Tai Kingdom of Lan Na (12th -16th centuries CE).<br/><br/> The most important site includes Wat Klang Muang, located in the centre of the village, with a small museum. Other more important temples include Wat Ubosot, Wat Ton Kok and Ku Mai Daeng. The entire complex was surveyed and restored by the Thai Fine Arts Department in the 1980s, and a record of their finding was published (in Thai) in 1991.<br/><br/> Wiang Tha Kan may be seen as a similar Mon outpost to nearby Wiang Kum Kam, located about 6km south of Chiang Mai on the Lamphun Road, a similarly fortified settlement guarding the Mon capital at Haripunchai. Two other fortified Mon settlements remain to be excavated.
Wiang Tha Khan, located 16km south of Chiang Mai in rural Sanpatong District, is a small and prosperous Northern Thai village set amid Lamyai plantations and inhabited by Tai Yong resettled from nearby Shan State in Burma at the beginning of the 19th century. As long ago as the 10th century CE it was a fortified city or ‘wiang’ serving as an outlying bastion of the Mon Kingdom of Haripunchai, today’s Lamphun. Today the remains of the city walls and surrounding moat survive amid the Lamyai plantations and rice fields, as well as the remains of 11 separate temples founded during the Mon Period (c. 9th-12th centuries CE), but dating in their present form from the Tai Kingdom of Lan Na (12th -16th centuries CE).<br/><br/> The most important site includes Wat Klang Muang, located in the centre of the village, with a small museum. Other more important temples include Wat Ubosot, Wat Ton Kok and Ku Mai Daeng. The entire complex was surveyed and restored by the Thai Fine Arts Department in the 1980s, and a record of their finding was published (in Thai) in 1991.<br/><br/> Wiang Tha Kan may be seen as a similar Mon outpost to nearby Wiang Kum Kam, located about 6km south of Chiang Mai on the Lamphun Road, a similarly fortified settlement guarding the Mon capital at Haripunchai. Two other fortified Mon settlements remain to be excavated.
The Gangatilaka Vihara, built in the 1960s, is a huge hollow dagoba next to the Kalu Ganga river.
Sri Dalada Maligawa or The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is located in the royal palace complex and houses the Relic of the tooth of Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country.
Saṅghamittā (Saṅghamitrā in Sanskrit) was the grand daughter of Emperor Bindusara and daughter of Emperor Ashoka and his wife, Devi. Together with Mahinda, her brother, she entered an order of Buddhist monks. The two siblings later went to Sri Lanka to spread the teachings of Buddha at the request of King Devanampiya Tissa (250 – 210 BCE) who was a contemporary of Ashoka (304 – 232 BCE).<br/><br/> The Mahavamsa (Sinhala: මහාවංසය ; Pali: Mahāvaṃsa, trans. 'Great Chronicle)', is a historical poem written in the Pali language, of the Kings of Sri Lanka. The first version covers the period from the coming of King Vijaya of the Rarh region of ancient Bengal in 543 BCE to the reign of King Mahasena (334–361 CE).