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Wat Thai
Watthanaram |
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Wat Thai Watthanaram, a
Thai-Burmese Buddhist temple in Mae Sot, in Thailand's
Tak province,
features many structures, objects and edifices
normally
associated with temples and architecture in
Myanmar. |
This includes the copious
use of
gold-coloured
tinplate on buildings and statues,
like in this one of
Manuthiha
(fig.),
a
mythological
sphinx-like
creature
half-man and half-lion,
and in the
two golden
chintha that
guard the entrance (fig.). |
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Wat Thai
Watthanaram |
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Wat Thai
Watthanaram |
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In the back is an
open-sided hangar with a large
reclining Buddha
and there are gilded
hintha pillars (fig.),
as well as a statue with two of those mythical
birds,
i.e.
a female on a male and topped with a
small parasol called
hti,
the symbol
of the
Hanthawaddy
Kingdom. |
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Wat Thai
Watthanaram |
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