Buddha Monthon Celebrations

งานสมโภชพุทธมนฑล

1988/2531-12-05

To commemorate the 1988 celebrations at Buddha Monthon

1988/48-52

2 Baht, 3 Baht, 4 Baht, 5 Baht, 6 Baht

9 Baht, 10 Baht, 12 Baht, 14 Baht, 20 Baht

65 Baht (unused), 40 Baht (used)

Unused set

27 x 47 mm for the first four designs and 47 x 27 mm for the last design

3 million pieces for the first design and 1 million pieces each for all other designs

Harrison & Sons Co., Ltd., England

Stone lotus pedestals or taanphraphuttarup, and the statue of Phra Phutta Monthon in Nakhon Pathom, a walking Buddha which symbolizes the Buddha's return from the Tavatimsa Heaven. The pedestals represent the major stages in the Buddha's life: 1. seven lotus pedestals, symbolizing the first seven steps that the Buddha took immediately after his birth; 2. a lotus pedestal at a bodhi tree, symbolizing the Buddha's Enlightenment, i.e. marapajon or maravijaya; 3. a dhammachakka with five pedestals, symbolizing the first sermon of the Buddha given to his first five disciples or panjawakkih; 4. an elongated pedestal, symbolizing the Buddha's demise or Mahaparinirvana; 5. the last design is Phra Phutta Monthon

Phra Phutta Monthon, lotus, taanphraphuttarup, maravijaya, marapajon, Enlightenment, bodhi tree, dhammachakka, Mahaparinirvana, walking Buddha, Tavatimsa, Buddha, Monthon, World Fellowship of Buddhists, Nakhon Pathom