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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.
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.
Despite this, rituals and protocols at the Chakri court came to be influenced by Chinese examples, and Siam regularly sent [[tribute]] to [[Qing Dynasty]] China, the Chinese Confucian worldview not being seen as too problematic nor as a challenge to Siam's heavily Indic-influenced political culture.
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