1. Ordination at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram

    · Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram (Wat Phra Kaew), Bangkok, Siam (now Thailand)

    Ordination at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram
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    Mongkut entered the Buddhist monkhood at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, beginning the twenty-seven-year monastic period that preceded his accession.

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