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Some scholars believe the statue is mentioned in the somewhat controversial Ram Khamhaeng stele. In lines 23–27 of the first stone slab of the stele, "a gold Buddha image" is mentioned as being located "in the middle of Sukhothai City", interpreted as being a reference to the Wat Traimit Golden Buddha.
The Phra Phuttha Sihing (Thai: พระพุทธสิหิงค์) is a highly revered image of the Gautama Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand, second in importance only after the Emerald Buddha. The image is currently housed at the Phutthaisawan Hall (formerly a part of the Front Palace ), now the Bangkok National Museum . [ 1 ]
The abbot removed the stucco and found a Buddha figure carved from a green semi-precious stone, which became known as Phra Kaew Morakot or in English the Emerald Buddha. ("Emerald" refers to its "green colour" in Thai, not its composition.) [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Some art historians describe the Emerald Buddha as belonging to the Chiang Saen Style of the ...
Such images were usually in the subduing Mara position, cross-legged, with the soles of the Buddha's feet visible. Many later Chiang Saen and Lanna images began to be constructed from crystals and gemstones. Two of the most important Buddha images in Thailand, the Emerald Buddha and the Phra Phuttha Sihing are made in the Lanna style.
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The temple in the mid-19th century; illustration by Henri Mouhot. Phra Phutthabat temple was built in 1624 [1] (B.E. 2168) by King Songtham of Ayutthaya, after a hunter named Phran Bun found a large depression in the stone, resembling a huge footprint, near Suwan Banpot Hill or Satchaphanthakhiri Hill.
The temple is a center of the Thammayut Nikaya order of Thai Theravada Buddhism, it is the shrine-hall of Phra Phuttha Chinnasi (พระพุทธชินสีห์), a statue of the Buddha which dates to around 1357. Bowonniwet has been a major temple of patronage for the ruling Chakri dynasty. [3]
This temple is also known as Wat Phra Kaew Wang Na (วัดพระแก้ววังหน้า; literally: "Temple of the Emerald Buddha at Front Palace"). Wat Bowon Sathan Sutthawat was built by Prince Sakdiphonlasep , viceroy of King Nangklao (Rama III) in the early Rattanakosin era, but it was not finished in his lifetime.