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SculptureThe Buddha image with dropping legs
This Buddha image has undergone a big restoration. The image wears sliding monastic robe. The robe is thin and has no wrinkles. The right hand depicts the attitude of giving sermon and the left hand is placed on the lap. There is a lotus supporting the feet. It has square face, prominent and connected eyebrows, low-looking and protruding eyes, large nose, big mouth, spiral hair buds, protruding “Usanesa” and a glass bead-like halo.
ArchitecturePhra Pathomchedi
Phra Pathomchedi is the largest bell-shaped stupa in Thailand. Its anda is above the veranda in circular plan, where there is a clioster connecting viharns in the four directions. Its platform starts with a set of lotus-shaped pedestal, a set of pyramidal wires, an anda, a ballang in sqaure plan surrounded by supporting pillars and the cylindrical plump finial. The buddha figure in the northern viharn stands for his birth. The buddha figure in the easthern viharn stands for his enlightenment. The buddha figure in the southern viharn stands for his first teaching and The buddha figure in the western viharn stands for his attaining to nirvana.
