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Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew

Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew rather than just read about it. In short: Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew (Thai: วัดป่ามหาเจดีย์แก้ว, RTGS: Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaeo, lit. 'Wilderness Temple of the Great Glass Pagoda'), also known as the Temple of a Million Bottles, is a Buddhist temple in Khun Han district of Sisaket province, Thailand. The temple is made of over 1.5 million empty Heineken bottles and Chang beer bottles.

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Reference excerpt

Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew (Thai: วัดป่ามหาเจดีย์แก้ว, RTGS: Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaeo, lit. 'Wilderness Temple of the Great Glass Pagoda'), also known as the Temple of a Million Bottles, is a Buddhist temple in Khun Han district of Sisaket province, Thailand. The temple is made of over 1.5 million empty Heineken bottles and Chang beer bottles. Collection of the bottles began in 1984; it took two years to build the main temple. Thereafter, the monks continued to expand the site, and by 2009 some 20 buildings had been similarly constructed.

History According to the China Daily, "The Thai Buddhist temple has found an environmentally friendly way to utilize discarded bottles to reach nirvana."

Construction

The main temple has a concrete core, with collected bottles used as construction materials. Two types of bottles are used; green Heineken bottles and brown Chang bottles. After the local monks began to collect them in 1984 for use as a building material, the local government sent additional bottles. In addition to the bottles themselves, the bottle caps are used to create mosaics. As of 2009 there were a total of 20 buildings constructed in this fashion; in addition to the temple there were a crematorium, a series of prayer rooms, the local water tower, bathrooms for the use of tourists as well as several raised bungalows which are used as housing for the monks. The main temple took two years to construct, but as the materials were still available the site is continually expanded. By 2009 there were more than 1.5 million bottles in use in the construction works at the temple site, leading to Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew also being known as the "Temple of a Million Bottles." In 2015, it was named one of the ten leading examples of sustainable architecture by travel website When on Earth. Parenthetically, 50 years ago the Heineken company looked into changing their bottles so that they could be used as building blocks, a construction material. While nothing came of that, the monks found a way.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew

In research: Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1984 establishments in Thailand, 20th-century Buddhist temples in Thailand, Glass bottles, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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