| WAT DAWADUNG 2 (วัดดาวดึงส์) |
Wat Dawadung (1) or the “Monastery of the Heaven of Indra” is a commemoration
vihara located off the city island in the northwestern area in Phukhao Thong sub-district -
Moo 4. It is situated near the crossing of the road which follows the Chao Phraya River
and road No 347 (Pa Mok - Bang Pa-In).
Following the locals the monastery stood before opposite the site of the vihara, in a
location which is now used by Buddhist nuns (Samnak Mae Chi Dawadung). The
Buddha images apparently have been moved opposite the road.
Historical data about the monastery and its construction are unknown. The site is not
indicated on Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map drafted in 1926.
Footnotes:
(1) The Traiphum or the "Three Worlds" consists of the Immaterial World, the Fine
Material World and the Sensuous World. The latter consists of eleven realms, dominated
by the five senses. Four realms are states of deprivation (which include the animal and
hell realms - the underworld), one is the world we presently live in (human beings) and
six are happy destinations - the dewa heavens. Dawadungsa is the second tier of the
dewa heavens, reckoned from the earth. Dawadungsa was located above the peak of
Mount Meru (Phra Sumeru) the centre of the universe. In the Dawadungsa Heaven is the
palace of Indra (Wechaiyanta) where Indra resides and where the Kalpa trees flourish
(Th: Kamaphruk), whose branches furnish everything that the angels can desire. [1]
References:
[1] The Wheel of the Law - Henry Alabaster (1871) - page 82, 171.
vihara located off the city island in the northwestern area in Phukhao Thong sub-district -
Moo 4. It is situated near the crossing of the road which follows the Chao Phraya River
and road No 347 (Pa Mok - Bang Pa-In).
Following the locals the monastery stood before opposite the site of the vihara, in a
location which is now used by Buddhist nuns (Samnak Mae Chi Dawadung). The
Buddha images apparently have been moved opposite the road.
Historical data about the monastery and its construction are unknown. The site is not
indicated on Phraya Boran Rachathanin's map drafted in 1926.
Footnotes:
(1) The Traiphum or the "Three Worlds" consists of the Immaterial World, the Fine
Material World and the Sensuous World. The latter consists of eleven realms, dominated
by the five senses. Four realms are states of deprivation (which include the animal and
hell realms - the underworld), one is the world we presently live in (human beings) and
six are happy destinations - the dewa heavens. Dawadungsa is the second tier of the
dewa heavens, reckoned from the earth. Dawadungsa was located above the peak of
Mount Meru (Phra Sumeru) the centre of the universe. In the Dawadungsa Heaven is the
palace of Indra (Wechaiyanta) where Indra resides and where the Kalpa trees flourish
(Th: Kamaphruk), whose branches furnish everything that the angels can desire. [1]
References:
[1] The Wheel of the Law - Henry Alabaster (1871) - page 82, 171.
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| Text & photographs by Tricky Vandenberg - January 2010 |
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| Commemoration vihara in situ) |
| (Phra Sangkha Jai at Wat Dawadung) |
| (Buddha statues at Wat Dawadung) |