Around Luang Prabang
16th December 2004
 
  
enlightenment
about 60% of the Lao people are Theravada Buddhists; Buddhism was apparently introduced to Luang Prabang (then Muang Sawa) in the late 13th or early 14th centuries, the spread of Buddhism throughout the rest of Laos was fairly slow as people were reluctant to accept the faith instead of worshipping spirits