Southeast Asia

Folk tale · 1 telling

Phra Phrom at the Erawan Shrine

Accidents and delays trouble the building of the Erawan Hotel in Bangkok.

From the epics · 2 tellings

Rama in Thailand and Cambodia

Thailand's Ramakien makes Phra Ram an incarnation of Phra Narai and a Bodhisatta; Cambodia's Reamker reads Preah Ream almost as a mortal through a Theravada lens.

In stone and bronze · 1 telling

The triple shrine of Phnom Bok

A Khmer hilltop temple of Yasovarman I with three towers for Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma — a rare true Trimurti set — within a Cambodian tradition whose main composite cult was Harihara.

How a tradition frames it · 2 tellings

Three faces of one Widhi

Balinese Hinduism reveres Brahma, Wisnu and Siwa as manifestations of the one ineffable Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, a formulation sharpened for state recognition.