Previous Buddhas and Their Great Departures

Site common name	Ubali Thien
Type of artwork	Painting
Village	-
Province/City	Bagan
State	Mandalay
Country	Myanmar
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 21.179444 Long : 94.876111

History of production	Thien or Sim is an Ubosot or an ordination hall. It is normally small for only a handful of monks who perform the rituals. it is made of bricks.
Art	Paintings in the early Kongbong are similar to those of Nyongyan. The distinctive feature is the use of hot-shading color with green color. There is no landscape. x The drawings are simple similar to drawing cartoons in the present time. Each picture is seperated by connected curves called “Sintao”. Empty space is filled with flora patterns. Sometimes pictures are drawn in long strips similar to pictures on ancient palm leave manuscripts. However, a high crown of Thai style shows that these paintings were painted after Ayutthaya was taken for the second time.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Kongbong
Age	22th-23th Century BE.
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Theravada
Religion and belief	The concept of past Buddhas appears in both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. It is believed that there have been countless Buddhas before time. Each past Buddha has his own story suvch as the scene when theu were leaving their cities to get ordained. Each of their story is slightly different from one another.
Related artwork	This is the scene of the great departure of one of the past Buddhas. He was riding an elephant with the four gate keepers of the world parading at the front. Demons were trying to stop him.

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-07-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali