This temple was clearly the biggest one we saw in Chiang Mai. The site contains several “houses”. Each of them had at least one Buddha inside (like the one lying down) but most actually contained several Buddhas: small, big, sitting, standing, etc. you name it.
Nagas (serpents or dragons) acting as guards.
One of them even had mural paintings all around. The sad part is that they are not protected at all and, of course, some people cannot help touching it.
The temple was also hosting a school. We arrived around lunch time and could see the “student” monks having lunch and later on walking back to their study room. Seeing so many boys dressed as monk got me wonder whether they would all become a monk one day. That would make a lot of monks. At the same time given the number of temples around, so many monks would be needed.
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