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    Pha That Luang in Laos began as a 1st century Hindu temple, later becoming a Buddhist stupa visited by monks said to have brought a relic of the Buddha. It was rebuilt in the 13th century as a Khmer temple but fell into disrepair until being reconstructed in the 1500s under King Setthathirat as the new capital was established at Vientiane, surrounding the stupa with 30 smaller ones.

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    Pha That Luang in Laos began as a 1st century Hindu temple, later becoming a Buddhist stupa visited by monks said to have brought a relic of the Buddha. It was rebuilt in the 13th century as a Khmer temple but fell into disrepair until being reconstructed in the 1500s under King Setthathirat as the new capital was established at Vientiane, surrounding the stupa with 30 smaller ones.

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    Pha That Luang – which literally means ‘great golden stupa’ – is said to

    have undergone many transformations over the years. Known as a


    Buddhist stupa nowadays – a hemispherical structure used as a place of
    meditation – Pha That Luang actually started life in the 1st century as a
    Hindu temple. In later years Buddhist missionaries and monks from
    India visited the stupa – the monks were said to have brought a
    breastbone of Lord Buddha as a relic.

    In the 13th century, the stupa was rebuilt as a Khmer temple, but it
    later fell into disrepair. Then in the 1500s, King Setthathirat relocated
    the capital city from Luang Prabang to Vientiane. As part of the
    relocation, the rebuilding of Pha That Luang was ordered, and this time
    it was surrounded by 30 smaller stupas too.

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