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Coordinates: 13°44′6″N 100°12′54″E / 13.73500°N 100.21500°E / 13.73500; 100.21500
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The temple is notable for its 17-story tall pink cylindrical building with a gigantic dragon sculpture curling around the entire height. The interior of the dragon sculpture contains a staircase, which has however deteriorated to a poor condition in places.
The temple is notable for its 17-story tall pink cylindrical building with a gigantic dragon sculpture curling around the entire height. The interior of the dragon sculpture contains a staircase, which has however deteriorated to a poor condition in places.
<ref>{{Internetquelle|url=http://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/03/the-dragon-temple-in-samphran.html|titel=The Dragon Temple in Samphran | hrsg=amusingplanet.com|autor=Kaushik|date=2016-03-10|zugriff=2016-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{Internetquelle|url=http://watsamphran.blogspot.de/ | titel=Umfangreiche Bilderstrecke วัดสามพราน Watsamphran|werk=watsamphran.blogspot|date=2016-02-09 (2014)|zugriff=2016-03-20}}</ref>
<ref>[http://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/03/the-dragon-temple-in-samphran.html The Dragon Temple in Samphran] </ref><ref>[http://watsamphran.blogspot.de/ Wat Samphran blogspot]</ref>


The temple clergy was involved in a sexual misconduct scandal that resulted in long prison sentences in 2004.<ref>{{Internetquelle|url=http://wwrn.org/articles/7236/?&place=thai-myanmar&section=buddhism|titel=Ex-abbot gets 160 years for rapes|werk=The Australian|date=2004-06-23|zugriff=2016-03-19}}</ref>
The temple clergy was involved in a sexual misconduct scandal that resulted in long prison sentences in 2004.<ref>[http://wwrn.org/articles/7236/?&place=thai-myanmar&section=buddhism Ex-abbot gets 160 years for rapes]</ref>


== Einzelnachweise ==
== Einzelnachweise ==

Revision as of 03:47, 20 February 2017

Wat Samphran (Thai วัดสามพราน) is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Amphoe Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom province, around 40 kilometers to the west of Bangkok. The temple was officially registered in 1985.[1]

The temple is notable for its 17-story tall pink cylindrical building with a gigantic dragon sculpture curling around the entire height. The interior of the dragon sculpture contains a staircase, which has however deteriorated to a poor condition in places. [2][3]

The temple clergy was involved in a sexual misconduct scandal that resulted in long prison sentences in 2004.[4]

Einzelnachweise

13°44′6″N 100°12′54″E / 13.73500°N 100.21500°E / 13.73500; 100.21500