Sala Kaew

About 8 km from Nong Khai.

This strange Hindu-Buddhist shrine, established in 1978, is a tribute to Luang Pu Bunleua Surirat.

He was a yogi-priest-shaman who made a combination

of Hindu and Buddhist mythology and iconography into a cryptic whole.

The temple has many bizarre cement stat­ues of Buddha, Shiva and other Hindu deities.

They ware all cast by unskilled artists under Luang Pu's direction.

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