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	King Photisarath
		Photisarath is considered to be the most devout of the Lao kings, he banned spirit worship and built temples upon the sites of spirit shrines.
		His elephant fell and crushed him while he sought to display his prowess to the diplomatic corps.
		His son Setthathirath returned from Xieng Mai[?] (Chiang Mai) to succeed him to the throne of Lan Xang.
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	History of Laos
		His successors, especially King Photisarath in the 16th century, helped establish Theravada Buddhism as the predominant religion of the country.
		By the 17th century, the kingdom of Lan Xang entered a period of decline marked by dynastic struggle and conflicts with its neighbors.
		King Sisavang Vong of Luang Prabang was induced to declare independence from France in 1945, just prior to Japan's surrender.
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	History of Laos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His successors, especially King Photisarath in the 16th century, helped establish Theravada Buddhism as the predominant religion of the country.
		King Sisavang Vong of Luang Prabang was induced to declare independence from France in 1945, just prior to Japan's surrender.
		The new communist government led by Kaysone Phomvihane imposed centralized economic decision-making and broad security measures, including control of the media, and the arrest and incarceration of many members of the previous government and military in "re-education camps".
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	Kingdoms of South East Asia
		King Narai (ruled 1656-88) initiated a series of diplomatic exchanges between Ayutthaya and the French court at Versailles and even appointed a Greek adventurer, Constantine Phaulkon, as his chief minister.
		Photisarath waged three wars against Ayutthaya and succeeded in placing his son Setthathirath on the throne of the Thai state of Chiang Mai (Lan Na), marking Lan Xang's maximum territorial expansion.
		King Minkyinyo (1486-1531) of Toungoo is considered the founder of the dynasty which conquered the Mohnyin Shan peoples in northern Myanmar, thus eliminating one element of the fragmentation that had existed in Myanmar since the demise of the Bagan dynasty in 1287.
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	Setthathirath. Who is Setthathirath? What is Setthathirath? Where is Setthathirath? Definition of Setthathirath. ...
		In 1572, however, a tragic conspiracy between a Lord Phya Nakhon and the former abbot of Wat Maximavat, who held personal grudges against Setthathirath, led to the great king's treacherous murder in the southern frontier of the country.
		Because Setthathirath left only a toddler as his heir, the child's maternal grandfather, a military commander of common birth named Saensurin (or Sene Soulintha), declared himself king.
		There was little peace in Laos until King Sourigna Vongsa ascended the throne in 1633 (possibly 1637).
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	Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan 1300-1615 by Sanderson Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		After Chiangmai's line of kings was ended by assassination in 1543, Photisarath accepted the crown for his young son Sethathirat and sent a regent.
		King Boromaraja II died while returning from another war with Chiangmai, and the 17-year-old governor of Phitsanulok assumed the title Boroma Trailokanat, known simply as Trailok (r.
		Korea's king appealed to China, and their forces drove the Japanese out of Pongyang and back south; but these first Chinese forces were trapped and defeated by the Japanese army.
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		In 1871 King Mindon convened the fifth council of the Buddhist religion in its long history, and 2,400 monks revised the Pali scriptures of the Tripitaka, which were then inscribed on 733 marble slabs at the Kuthodaw Pagoda.
		When the King discovered that his oldest son was having affairs with two of his wives in 1756, all three of them were flogged to death.
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	King Photisarath
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		I go my way." But as he began to rise, Gilbert's hand went out, and his fingers met as you think." "You shrank from me," said the stranger, hesitating to resume his seat.
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		King O'Malley (July 1858 - 20 December 1953), Australian politician, was one of the more colourful characters of the early federal period of Australian political history.
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		Photisarath was a pious Buddhist who worked to undermine animism and Brahmanic religious practices and promote Buddhism.
		Photisarath married a princess from Chiang Mai (now in northern Thailand), and when his father-in-law, the ruler of Chiang Mai, died in 1546 without male issue, Photisarath had his own son Setthathirat I placed on the Chiang Mai throne.
		When Photisarath died in the following year, after a fatal accident while hunting wild elephants, Setthathirat succeeded him and joined together the two kingdoms--which were soon embroiled in Siamese-Burmese wars that devastated much of the region over the next half-century.
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	Laos: Wat Aham
		Wat Aham was originally constructed in 1527 on the site of the ancient animist shrine to the legendary Khun Burom's loyal servants Phou Nheu and Nha Nheu, who are revered as devata luang of Muang Sua.
		This shrine was demolished by the wat's founder, devout Buddhist King Photisarath, following the promulgation of an edict to ban the worship of spirits, but was subsequently maintained and may still be seen today within the compound of the wat, complete with its ritual wooden masks and horsehair costumes.
		An example of Luang Prabang Style III (Xieng Khouang Style) temple architecture, the present sim was rebuilt in 1818 by King Manthatourath (1819-1837).
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	King Photisarath Definition / King Photisarath Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Exiled as an infant to Cambodia, the Lao prince from Muang Sua eventually married one of the Khmer king's daughters and in 1349 set out from Angkor at the head of a 10,000-man army.
		Fa Ngum organized the conquered principalities into provinces (muang), and reclaimed Muang Sua from his father and elder brother.
		Fa Ngum was crowned king of Lan Xang at Vientiane, the site of one of his victories (Victory of Phay Nam...
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		After his death in 1416, a long period of peace and tranquillity proceeded that would last until a Vietnamese invasion in 1479.
		This period of calm ended with Photisarath who involved Lan Xang in a struggle against Myanmar and the Thai Settathirath returned to rule as Setthathirath I. When he died in 1571, the Myanmar seized Vien Chan and ravaged the country.
		The last king of Vien Chan, Chan Anou repeatedly tried to shake off the Siamese control, by was never able to win.
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	Dragon Indochine Travel
		The first recorded history of the Lao begins with King Fa Ngum, by legend the 23rd successor of Khoun Lo, who first united Laos in 1353.
		In 1563 King Setthathirat made the riverside city of Vientiane the capital of Laos.
		Local legend relates that King Khoon Chuong and his troops from South China had a huge party after their victory over the wicked Chao Angka and had the jars made to brew enormous quantities of Lao rice whisky (lau-lao).
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	Encyclopedia: King Photisarath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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		see also history of Laos Laos traces its formal history (also see Early History of Laos) to the establishment of the Kingdom of Lan Xang (literally, million elephants) by King Fa Ngum in 1353.
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	History of Laos
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		Laos traces its formal history (also see Early History of Laos) to the establishment of the Kingdom of Lan Xang (literally, "million elephants") by King Fa Ngum in 1353.
		The new communist government led by Kaysone Phomvihane imposed centralized economic decisionmaking and broad security measures, including control of the media and the arrest and incarceration of many members of the previous government and military in "re-education camps".
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	Setthathirat I -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		When Photisarath died in the following year, Setthathirat returned to Laos to assume his father's throne but remained king of Chiang Mai until 1551.
		He made Vientiane his capital in 1560 and had the Emerald Buddha—a green jasper statue of the Buddha and the most sacred object of Chiang Mai—brought there, where he built a majestic temple to house it.
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