Our friends Steve & Yasuko came over to Thailand on holiday recently. This is part five and the final part of our trip to Ayuthaya

Author: dpm64
Keywords: travel holiday Ayuthaya temple culture Buddhism
Added: May 3, 2008

Party at Jazz Bar, Ayuthaya Thailand. Big up to all the friends !

Author: happysou
Keywords: thai thailand ayuthaya song singing fun party
Added: May 1, 2008

La mia ultima vacanza in Thailandia, dicembre 2007. Templi di Bangkok, mercato galleggiante, Ayuthaya, Phuket, Phi Phi island, vita notturna di Bangkok e Patong, capodanno 2008 sulla Bangla road

Author: sermoon
Keywords: vacanza thailandia thailand bangkok Ayuthaya Phuket Phi island vita notturna patong nightlife
Added: April 11, 2008

combat de coq � Ayuthaya

Author: edgarkosma
Keywords: combat coq ayuthaya thailand
Added: April 3, 2008

Shot in the cleverly named, Music Bar in Ayuthaya, Thailand - where the owner is famously renound for shouting at closing, "Doors Shut, Bar OPEN!" We asked our Japanese bass player to tell us his best joke and he said, "Do you know Taggish?" and then did this...

Author: njcduffy
Keywords: Joke Taggish
Added: March 21, 2008

A short holiday movie of our roundtrip in Thailand (december 2005)including: Bangkok, Ayuthaya, Chang Mai, Pai, Kanchanaburi and Hua Hin.

Author: dvdsalm
Keywords: Diederik Ingrid Thailand 2005
Added: April 30, 2008

Marisa explique quelques principes de philosophie boudhiste sur les ruines de l'ancienne capitale du siam, voyage thailande mars 2008

Author: peeweeonline
Keywords: boudhisme thailande ayathaya marisa mars 2008
Added: April 8, 2008

Our friends Steve & Yasuko came over to Thailand on holiday recently. This is part four of our trip to Ayuthaya

Author: dpm64
Keywords: travel holiday Ayuthaya temple culture Buddhism
Added: May 3, 2008

Our friends Steve & Yasuko came over to Thailand on holiday recently. This is part two of our trip to Ayuthaya

Author: dpm64
Keywords: travel holiday Ayuthaya temple culture Buddhism
Added: May 3, 2008

Beelden van ayuthaya

Author: nahtje
Keywords: ayuthaya temples
Added: April 2, 2008

Thaksin spokesman Jakrapob gives his own version of Thai history from Sukhothai to Ayuttaya and then up to the present day at the FCCT ?????????????????????????????? ??? ?????? ?????? In other words, there was not there was no better idea on how a kingdom could be run so that it was the best system at the time. Later on in Ayuthaya period, that was the capital city of a land for 400 and some years, the God like idea of monarch had been introduced with the Khmer civilization's influence. The idea of a King as a Demi-God as a representative from the Hindu Gods and the Gods beyond these Hindu Gods had arrived in our land at that time. So the Patronage system of helping people or being dependable for people had been changed into the state of protection. If you have loyalty to the King, unquestionable loyalty to the King, you would be protected, in order to show this protection more clearly, people who do otherwise must be punished. So the very system in Ayuthaya period shows or showed that there was an evolution of the system, some people might call it regressive, some people would call it progressive. Whatever it might be in your opinion, it was a combination between the benevolence of the Great Fathers model and the Great Leaders model. In other words, the Kings of Ayuthaya were powerful and the concept of power were realized at the time that if people in power could be benevolent, you could benefit from that power as well. In other words Ayuthaya period taught Thai people to live with power, how to live with it. How to survived in it, and how not to be destroyed by it. But Ayuthaya period also triggered the new relationships in a land, the master slave relationship, the noble and commoners relationship. That was Ayuthaya. Then came Rattanakosin period, I would eh bypass the 12 years of Thonburi period. In Rattanakosin period, in which we are now. The Chakri Dynasty was the starter of this so called Rattanakorin Rattanakosin period. What it it is? It's a combination of Ayuthaya and the new skills of what I would like to call knowledge management. In other words, the glory of the chief father is combined with the power of Ayuthaya period and the Demi-God stature of the monarchs has been added during Rattanakosin period with the so-called knowledge management. Knowledge is power at that time, it was perceived so. That's why King Mongkut spoke English in his court and he introduced science and probably technologies, inventions, foreign goods that were completely unknown to Thai people at that time. As one of the sources of his powers King Mongkut was seen not as a benevolent King, not as the best of the chief Father King but as the Father of science and technology. He's still regarded that way. So in other words, the system in Thailand has been to the point that leaders and rulers have been finding the best way possible at that time to convince people that they are dependable. The sources of their being dependable varies over time, like I described to you. And then here we are in the reign of current King, King Bhumipol or Rama the 9th. We have all of that combined and because he reigns for so long of a time, 60 some years now. His being in Thailand has been promoted to the state of myth. People don't know whether or not they are talking about the realities or believe about him because he reigns long enough that he could be all of those combined, the traditional King, the scientific King, the developing King., the working monarch. And now so, he can still be the guardian of the new invention to Thailand - democracy. So all of that have been in front of us, that we have all these variables that we have to rearrange and put in a new order.

Author: Jakapob
Keywords: Jakrapob Sukothai Ayuttaya Thaksin ?????? ??????
Added: March 30, 2008

Road Trip to Laos 2007 10-11 Nov - Thailand, Hat Yai, Ayuthaya 12- 26 Nov - Laos, Pakse, Si Phan Don,Savannakhet Muang Phin, Thak Kaek, Nam Hin Boun Phonsavan, Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, Vientiane 27Nov-1Dec - Thailand, Khon Kaen, Hua Hin, Krabi, Hat Yai 2 Dec - Home

Author: cheomech
Keywords: Laos Suzuki Grand Vitara Pakse Phonsavan
Added: March 29, 2008

La mia ultima vacanza in Thailandia, dicembre 2007. Templi di Bangkok, mercato galleggiante, Ayuthaya, Phuket, Phi Phi island, vita notturna di Bangkok e Patong, capodanno 2008 sulla Bangla road

Author: sermoon
Keywords: vacanza thailandia thailand bangkok Ayuthaya Phuket Phi island vita notturna patong nightlife
Added: April 11, 2008

TRANSCRIPT Well, however we have started of as a country in Patronage system. Most of you who read about Thailand and it's brief history, because we decided to count our history 700 years ago and disregard the 300 years before that because it involved the Southern complexity. That's why the history was chosen to start 700 years ago in Sukothai period where Sukothai was the capital city of what would become Thailand. In Sukothai at least in one the reigns of the Sukothai long history, we were led to know and believe that one of the Kings during Sukothai period, King Ramkamheang at the time to be more precisely. Great brother oh I'm sorry Great Father Ramkamheang at the time because the idea of God like monarch hasn't arrived in this land yet during the Sukothai period. So he was or they were observed and regarded as the Great Fathers who could be benevolent to their people and gave the people what the people needed at the time. One of the noted examples was that Great Father Ramkamheang or King Ramkamheang just to be short proposed to have a bell hung in front of his palace and anybody with specific problems could come and ring that bell and he or his people would come out and handle the problems. That was one of the first lessons the Thai students learnt about Thai political regime that you have someone to depend upon. When you have a problem turn to someone who can help you, so before we know it, we are led into the Patronage system because we asked about dependency before our own capability to do things. These are the very basic concept that makes Thai people different from many peoples around the world. So we started of like that, during the Sukothai period we had Kings that did things like that. So people had duty to be loyal, people had duty to have faith in the system bestowed on them because that was the working system at that time and there was no competing system. In other words, there was not there was no better idea on how a kingdom could be run so that it was the best system at the time. Later on in Ayuthaya period, that was the capital city of a land for 400 and some years, the God like idea of monarch had been introduced with the Khmer civilization's influence. The idea of a King as a Demi-God as a representative from the Hindu Gods and the Gods beyond these Hindu Gods had arrived in our land at that time. So the Patronage system of helping people or being dependable for people had been changed into the state of protection. If you have loyalty to the King, unquestionable loyalty to the King, you would be protected, in order to show this protection more clearly, people who do otherwise must be punished. So the very system in Ayuthaya period shows or showed that there was an evolution of the system, some people might call it regressive, some people would call it progressive. Whatever it might be in your opinion, it was a combination between the benevolence of the Great Fathers model and the Great Leaders model. In other words, the Kings of Ayuthaya were powerful and the concept of power were realized at the time that if people in power could be benevolent, you could benefit from that power as well. In other words Ayuthaya period taught Thai people to live with power, how to live with it. How to survived in it, and how not to be destroyed by it. But Ayuthaya period also triggered the new relationships in a land, the master slave relationship, the noble and commoners relationship. That was Ayuthaya. Then came Rattanakosin period, I would eh bypass the 12 years of Thonburi period. In Rattanakosin period, in which we are now. The Chakri Dynasty was the starter of this so called Rattanakorin Rattanakosin period. What it it is? It's a combination of Ayuthaya and the new skills of what I would like to call knowledge management. In other words, the glory of the chief father is combined with the power of Ayuthaya period and the Demi-God stature of the monarchs has been added during Rattanakosin period with the so-called knowledge management. Knowledge is power at that time, it was perceived so. That's why King Mongkut spoke English in his court and he introduced science and probably technologies, inventions, foreign goods that were completely unknown to Thai people at that time. As one of the sources of his powers King Mongkut was seen not as a benevolent King, not as the best of the chief Father King but as the Father of science and technology. He's still regarded that way. So in other words, the system in Thailand has been to the point that leaders and rulers have been finding the best way possible at that time to convince people that they are dependable. The sources of their being dependable varies over time, like I described to you.

Author: Jakapob
Keywords: Jakrapob thaksin thai thailand ?????? ??????
Added: March 30, 2008

beautiful place..

Author: leaxg9
Keywords: tour in ayuthaya
Added: April 18, 2008

WITH the historical description by Kenneth T So in "The Khmer home in Southeast Asia: A Wider View", (Post August 6-19, 1999). I do not think that Mr So is obsessed about the Khmer past, as C Rabour has alleged. Rather, Mr So was provoked by Don Pramudwinai who has asserted that Battambang and Siem Reap were historically part of Thailand or Siam. Battambang, Siem Reap and Srei Sophorn, (later Serei Sophom, or Sisophon as the Thai pronunciation of it) never belonged to Siam (known as Thailand since 1939). Those regions have always belonged to Cambodia, but have been attacked and at certain times in history, annexed by Thailand. Most recently, these regions were invaded and taken by Siam/Thailand in 1795 and 1941. They remained under Thai control until 1946. The first Siamese invasion and looting of Angkor was in about 1352 and again in the 1430s. Ayuthaya, the Siamese capital, itself was built on top of the demise of Sri Dvaravati, former kingdom of the Mons. The provinces taken from the Khmers in 1795 were Battambang, Siem Reap/Angkor, Bongkol-Borei, Srei Sophorn, Siem Pang. In 1814 more provinces were annexed by Siam, namely Mlou Prei, Tole Peou, and Stung Treng. Only in 1907 were most of these provinces returned to Cambodia. However, other Khmer borei, now called provinces or khet, such as Norkor Reachborie (Korat), Boreirom (Buriram), Sorint (Surin), Korkhan, Sisaket, Bascemborie (Prachinburi), Chantaborie (Chantaburi), Champasak and Trat annexed before 1790, have remained under Thai occupation till today. Under the French-Thai treaty executed in 1907, the Thais were required to return to Cambodia only those provinces taken by the Thais after 1790. For this, Thais should thank the Anglo-French conflict, because Thailand was not part of French Indochina but was an ally of the English. History from the Thai point of view, especially relating to the Angkorian legacy, was cultivated by King Mongkut and later his son, Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, the "father of Thai modern history" and the architect of the Thai modern state. It has been reinforced by people like Luang Vichitr Vadhakarn, the director of Department of Fine Arts in 1932 and his successor Dhanit Yupho in the 1960s when the Thais were engaged in nationalist and prejudicial policies toward their neighbors, especially the Khmers. History as told by the leaders of Thailand has been an attempt to reinforce Thai nationalism and to clarify the confused national identity of the Thai people. Confused because the Yunan Thais, the Vietnamese and the Chinese have, to use David Chandler's phrase, an identity crisis. The Chinese are not worried but the other two are. The Thais began their identity crisis during the 1908-1910 riots when Chinese residents refused to pay Thai taxes. The Vietnamese crisis started when they split from Qin or China. One way to try to distinguish themselves from Chinese, Vietnamese women dyed their teeth black, a very painful process. After the Siamese victory, with Khmer military assistance, in the long and destructive wars with Burma (1548-1592, 1760-1767); and the founding of the current Chakkri dynasty in 1782 (the current King is the ninth King of the dynasty) the Siamese began to attack the traditional boundaries of Cambodia. In the 1850s, King Mongkut hired a Welsh governess, Anna Leonowens, to educate his children. As a result of this different education, lifestyle and Western way of thinking, successive Thai kings began to view Khmer traditions and lifestyle as outdated. The Chakkri kings began to view the Khmers to be Khmamen padong or "the jungle Khmers", hence the uncivilized Khmers. The term "contemptible Khmamen" lives on today. This prejudice was so strong that many of the successive Thai generations did not want to have any thing to do with the Khmer people, which has led to the propagation in Thailand of a uniquely Thai version of history relating to the Khmers. History as taught to Thai children has encouraged a terrible prejudicial stereotyping of Khmers which continues, in my experience, to this day. Another reason for the manipulation of history by the Thais came from the amazing evidence of Khmer civilization which, according to historians, was well advanced by the time Christianity came into existence. This civilization encompassed the lands taken by Thailand from Cambodia - the architecture, court etiquette, culture and traditional religion and language. (The Pali language, used in Khmer scripts, was used by the Siamese until the 19th century.) The Thais have adopted or appropriated much of the great Khmer legacy as their own and due to their view of Khmers as uncivilized, refuse to link their "history" with Cambodian history......

Author: AhmekKhmer
Keywords: Cambodia Kampuchea Bora Touch Battambang Pali Khom Preah Vihear Cambodja Thai Siem King Mongkut
Added: March 26, 2008

Our friends Steve & Yasuko came over to Thailand on holiday recently. This is part one of our trip to Ayuthaya

Author: dpm64
Keywords: travel holiday Ayuthaya temple culture Buddhism
Added: May 3, 2008

Our friends Steve & Yasuko came over to Thailand on holiday recently. This is part three of our trip to Ayuthaya

Author: dpm64
Keywords: travel holiday Ayuthaya temple culture Buddhism
Added: May 3, 2008

GTR-DVD-1177 - Wat Pho or, The Temple Of The Prone Buddha, is a famous religious landmark is the largest and oldest monastery complex in Bangkok. Almost two hundred years before Bangkok became the country's official capital city under the rule of King Rama The First, a smaller temple complex already existed. The stylishly decorated buildings of Wat Pho developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today some of the buildings have a religious function whereas others form sections of an impressive museum. More than a thousand Buddha statues, some of them having originated from the early capital cities of Ayuthaya and Sukhothai, highlight the religious significance of Wat Pho. Thus those who come here are not only keen to inspect its treasures but they are also fascinated by the thousands of years old religious faith of the temple's former inhabitants. Covering almost eight hectares the temples of Wat Pho provide a remarkable variety of interest and several opportunities for meditation and relaxation. Global Treasures - History's Most Protected Monuments - Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live today, and what we pass on to future generations. our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa's Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world's heritage. Join us as we explore one of these protected monuments.

Author: TravelVideoStore
Keywords: Wat Phra Chetuphon pho Bangkok thailand landmark destination travel log museum
Added: April 28, 2008

Thai Boxing Gtba Sit ayuthaya

Author: nemelis
Keywords: Gtba Sports Thai Boxing
Added: May 1, 2008