Rama I
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Rama I was the founder of the Siamese (Thai) Chakri Dynasty, the dynasty which continues to reign in Thailand today. He took the throne in 1782.
In contrast to the Confucian and Chinese-influenced kingdoms in Korea, Vietnam, Ryukyu, and elsewhere, the king was seen as a bodhisattva, and as chakravartin, a universal monarch not as explicated in a Confucian cosmology, but rather in a Hindu/Brahminist one.
References
- Mark Mancall, "The Ch'ing Tribute System: An Interpretive Essay," in John K. Fairbank (ed.) The Chinese World Order, Harvard University Press (1968), 68.