Home Customs Buddhism Tiger Temple CustomsBuddhismReligionThailand Tiger Temple By Marco de Groen - Feb 27, 2014 SHARE Facebook Twitter Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Theravada Buddhist temple in western Thailand that was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and sanctuary for wild animals, among them several tigers, the majority of which are Indochinese tigers.