We visited Wat Kham Sanot, Udon Thani, on our latest visit to the Isaan in November. My wife and her family called it "a superstition temple". It had the large, standing Buddha outside, the traditional statues in various locations and an abbott that wore the 108-bead mala neclace, but with many amulets of horn, bone and takrut on it. The temple also has the "lifting stones" that many partake of to tell their fortune with and also the "big gong" that one strikes to get reverbarations from to show good luck and the gongs that one makes "sing" by rubbing them rapidly. Has anyone else out there visited this temple?

The abbott offered takrut and blessed waist-bands for the males that visited and he blessed the sak yant that the men had tattooed on themselves. I got a "meed mor", magical knife, from him to ward off evil in the home.

The temple is located East/Northeast of Udon Thani and almost due North of Sawang Daen Din, yet it is in Udon Thani province.