The temple
features an Asoka the Great Monument
(fig.),
as well as an
Asoka Pillar
in the form of a tall sandstone column with a
single
statue of
a
lion
(fig.),
similar to the pillars this
ruler had
erected throughout
his vast
empire
after his conversion
to
Buddhism,
in order to propagate the teachings of the
Buddha. |
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Wat Asokaraam |
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