Guests donate funds for
the new Buddhism center in Thailand’s northeast.
Thanachot Anuwan
Saha Farms’ Ban Sukhawadee and the Phra Yai Chaiyaphum Foundation
organized a merit-making ceremony to raise funds for a 20 billion baht
Buddhism center in Thailand’s northeast.
Saha Farms Managing Director Punya Chotithewan welcomed Banglamung
District Chief Sakchai Taengho, Nongprue Police Superintendent Col.
Somnuk Janthages, and Thipakorn Rinthaisongh, president of the Phra Yai
Chaiyaphum Foundation, to the grandiose Pattaya mansion May 10.
Guests donated funds that will go toward construction of a religious
center slated to host the world’s largest Buddhist statue, among other
attractions, in Chaiyaphum’s Nafai Sub-district.
The 20 billion baht project calls for a biography of Buddha’s 500 lives,
four pagodas, models of important Buddhist destinations around the
world, a 2,500-person sermon hall, a pavilion to accommodate 5,000,
lotus swimming pool, 500-rai sake-head statue, parking for 1,000 cars,
waterfalls, accommodations for monks and more.
Construction is scheduled to begin this year.
