The Legend Of Luang Poh To In Thailand

The Legend of Luang Poh To is about threeNam Daeng, also known as Red Thorn Temple.
images of Buddha. It was said that a thousandThe local villagers tried to get the statue to enter
years ago three statues appeared floating on thethe temple. They used all possible means of
Bang Pakong river. Though the statues werepersuasion. They worshipped the second brother
called three brothers, it is believed that they wereand lit joss sticks but the statue did not stop and
not made by mere mortals. No one knew thecontinued on its way. The villagers were
origins of the statues.completely powerless to stop the statue.
The local people tried to stop the statues and getThe second brother then reach Wat Bang Phli Yai,
them ashore but they failed in their attempts. Thethe next temple along the canal. The locals
largest of the three statues floated down theimmediately started worshipping him and they
river to the sea, where he followed the upperused a sacred white thread to draw the statue to
coastline of the Gulf of Siam, finishing his journeythe shore. This time the villagers were successful
in the Mae Klong River at Samut Songkhram. Inand the second brother was housed in Wat Bang
Samut Songkhram, the local people invited thePhli Yai and it is known as Luang Por Tor.
statue to come ashore and dwell in the temple ofThe third statue came to rest on the banks of
Wat Ban Laem. The statue accepted the invitationBang Pakong river in exactly the same spot
and came ashore.where the Wat Sothorn now stands. Legend has
The second statue followed a similar path like theit that the locals initially tried to persuade the third
first statue but it floated up the Chao Phrayabrother to come ashore but failed in their
river towards Bangkok. The second brotherattempts. So, they worshiped him and used the
floated past Bangkok and then along Klong Bangsacred thread to pull him ashore. Now, the third
Phli. The first temple along the canal was Watbrother is housed in Wat Sothorn.