Wat Samphran
Wat Samphran ( Thai วัด สามพราน ) is a Buddhist temple ( wat ) in the district of Sam Phran , Nakhon Pathom Province , about 40 kilometers west of Bangkok . The temple was officially registered in 1985.
The most distinctive building of the temple is a 17-story pink, cylindrical building, on the outside of which a dragon winds its way, which is hollow on the inside and in which there is a staircase, which is partly in very bad condition.
In 2004, Luang Phor Pawana Buddho, a former abbot of the temple, was sentenced to 160 years in prison for allegedly raping a total of 28 underage girls who had lived in the temple. He now faces the Thai maximum sentence of 50 years in prison. Some of the former nuns alleged to have lured the girls into the temple for the abbot received prison terms of between 10 and 30 years.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ประกาศ กระทรวง ศึกษาธิการ เรื่อง ตั้ง วัด ใน พระพุทธ ศาสนา วัด สามพราน. In: Royal Gazette Volume 102, Ed. 153 ง of October 22, 1985, p. 5200 (pdf, on ratchakitcha.soc.go.th, in Thai).
- ↑ Kaushik: The Dragon Temple in Samphran. amusingplanet.com, March 10, 2016, accessed March 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Extensive series of pictures วัด สามพราน Watsamphran. In: watsamphran.blogspot. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Ex-abbot gets 160 years for rapes. In: The Australian. June 23, 2004, accessed March 19, 2016 .
Coordinates: 13 ° 44 ′ 6 ″ N , 100 ° 12 ′ 54 ″ E