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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 Kingdom|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.
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==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.
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