Group Of Pagoda Of Wat Suan Dok Temple In Thailand. Stock Photo

Wat Suan Dok (Flower Garden Temple) is in the west of old Chiang Maiestablished for 700 years.There are dozens and dozens of small white chedi, about three meters (10 feet) to six meters (20 feet) high. These house the ashes of many of the Chiang Mai Royal Family but the largest one, just to the south, is a Buddhist relic chedi.This temple originally lay in a fortified square beyond Chiang Mai walls. Legends tell that King Ku Na invited the venerable Sumana Thera, a very pious monk from Sukhothai to bring the Buddhism of Sri Lanka to Chiang Mai.The King offered him the royal flower garden (Suan Dok) as a place to build a temple. The temple was established in 1371.Located in Chiang Mai Province,Northern of Thailand.