Koh Siray Temple

#songkran2024 A euphoric, magnificient view opens up before your amazed eyes as you climb up the top of the hill where Wat Ko Siray stands. The gorgeous, spectaculous panorama and red-yellow-golden splendour of the temple compete in attracting your insatiable attention. You are so much enchanted that your eager and lively perception wanders in divine ambiguity between spiritual indulgence of the temple and marvelling at the surrounding beauty. After a while, а bright abundance of impressions get softly fused into the peaceful flowing of mind-and-soul elevation. The Wat Ko Siray temple complex consists of the two levels. А Pagoda and the monks' cells are at the foot of the hill. The temple and the gallery with Buddhas are on the top of the hill. The Siamese trees with yellow flowers, the pink bushes of bougainvillea and oleander thrive beutifully around. A winding road, lined with palms, dipterocarpus and tualang trees towering high up in the sky, leads to the top. In the gallery there are about fifteen seated and standing Buddhas shining with pearl-and-velvet gold. On the pre-temple altar there is the sacred inscription: Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhassa. It means: Honour to the Blessed One, the Exalted One, the fully Enlightened One. There is also one more sutra meaning: Our pride and lust are the most severe hindrances. The Indian rose tree hangs beautifully over the altar platform. The reclining Buddha, great and enormous, big and huge, spreads calm, peacefulness and bliss around. Your soul gets filled with tranquil harmony. A spirit of rejoycement hovers above the temple, hill and the island. The revelation coming on you sharpens your mind and strengthens your body. . .