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Wat Khunaram is a Buddhist temple on route 4169 between Na Muang and Hua Thanon, about 6 km west of Lamai on Ko Samui. It is the shrine of the monk Luang Pho Daeng, who died in 1973 and asked for his body to be displayed as a reminder of the transience of life; it sits upright in a glass case in the temple.
Wat Phra Yai, known in English as the Big Buddha Temple, stands on Ko Phan, a small islet joined to the north-east coast of Ko Samui by a causeway, about 3 km north of the airport. Its 12-metre gold-painted Buddha statue, built in 1972, sits in the Mara posture at the top of a staircase lined with naga serpents.
Wat Plai Laem is a modern Buddhist temple in the north-east of Ko Samui, near Wat Phra Yai, whose design blends Chinese and Thai traditions and was partly by the artist Jarit Phumdonming. Its lake holds an ordination hall on a platform and an open-air statue of the eighteen-armed Guanyin, with a white statue of Budai and shrines to Hindu deities nearby.
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