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In a field by the Mekong River,off Th Tha Deua,24km south of central Vientiane,Xien Khuan is,as the name suggests ,a park full of Buddihist and Hindu sculpture that is a monument to one eccentric man's quite bizzare ambition.
Xien Khuan was designed and built in 1958 by Luang Pu (Venerable Grandfather) Bunleua Sulilat,a yogi-priest-shaman who merged Hindu and Buddist philosophy,mythology and iconagraphy into a cryptic whole.Originally Bunleua is supposed to have studied under Hindu rishi(sage) who lived in Vietnam.Legend has is that their meeting was fortunate,to say the least,as while Bunlena was walking in the mountains he fell through a sinkhole and landed in the rishi's lap.
Bunlena developed a large following in Laos and northeastern Thailand,and moved to Thailand around the time of 1975 Revolution.In 1978,he established the similarly inspired Wat Khaek in Nong Khai,Thailand. |
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