Phya Lithai

Li Thai, king of Sukhothai under the name Maha Thammaracha I, was the son of Loe Thai and the grandson of Ram Khamhaeng. Viceroy at Si Satchanalai, he came to the throne around 1347. Regarded as the first Buddhist philosopher to write in Thai, he protected Theravada Buddhism, brought from Martaban a monk trained in Lanka, himself took the robe and had bronze images cast. In 1363 he settled in Phitsanulok, where he remained until the end of his reign, in 1368 or 1374.

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