Talk:Wat Chedi Luang

3 temples or 5 temples?
The opening text of this article says: The current temple grounds originally was made up of three temples - Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Ho Tham and Wat Sukmin.

After the cremation of Chan Kusalo, the abbot of Wat Chedi Luang, I bought a book about the cremation, containing also information about Wat Chedi Luang, more specific it contained a map dating from 1893. This map mentiones Wat Ho Tham but not Wat Sukmin. In total 4 Wats are mentioned as surrounding Wat Chedi Luang: วิหาร.วัดสบฝาง - wí-hăn • wát sòp făng, วิหาร.วัดหอธรรม - wí-hăn • wát hŏ tham, วิหาร.วัดสบชมิ้น - wí-hăn • wát sòp chá-mín and วิหาร.วัดพันเตา - wí-hăn • wát phan tao.

This makes me conclude that there were originally five temples on the temple grounds, not three.

In Exploring Chiang Mai, City, Valley & Mountains by Oliver Hargreave it says about Wat Phan Tao that is was originally part of Wat Chedi Luang, but is now a temple on its own. This supports the information on the 1893 map.

Since I'm living in Chiang Mai 6 months a year I will have the opportunity to find more information at Wat Chedi Luang.

FredTC (talk) 02:28, 6 November 2010 (UTC)