BANGKOK: The King on Monday (March 25) performed an elaborate annual ritual to change the outfit of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew to the summer outfit.

Bangkok is full of temples, ... Wat Phra Kaew – Temple of the Emerald Buddha – enshrines one of Thailand’s most revered Buddha statues, which was carved out of a single block of jade.

BANGKOK – A Buddha statue was unexpectedly found inside a mango tree when it was being cut down during landscaping works at a temple in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi province.