Page 4 - important temples in Chiang mai

Wat Jet Yod

King Tilokarat built the temple in

1455. The temple was probably
copied from the design of the

Mahabodhi temple in Pagan, which

itself was a copy of the Indian temple
at Bodhgaya. It had been predicted

that Buddhism would decline after

2000 years. King Tilokarat's religious

works, as well as those of other
Southeast Asian monarchs of the

time, were an attempt to prevent this

decline. Wat Jet Yod was the site of
the Eighth World Buddhist council in

1477, which revised the Tripitaka

(Buddhist canon and teachings)