Buddhism in Thailand

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

These palatial ruins said to be inspired by Cambodia's Angkor Wat have been turned into a significant religious temple.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

An early 1900s temple features unique architecture and murals.

An immersive exhibition that meditates on death and life.

Displaying religious art made almost exclusively in modern styles helps set this Buddhist temple apart from the myriad others in Bangkok.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

Limestone outcrop decorated with a large laser engraving of the Buddha.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

This serene bamboo walkway allows Buddhist monks from remote temples access to the nearby village.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.