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Tradition: Buddhist · clear
Folk tale · 1 telling · contested
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.