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Entranceway of the Bang Khun Thian Temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) Anderl, Christoph; Johansen, Kira; Thomson, Oliver; Sirothphiphat, Saly

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Bang Khun Thian (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) is a three-winged Guanyin (觀音) temple in Bangkok, Thailand. The temple houses both Buddhist and Daoist deities, even though the main altar is dedicated to Guanyin. The following images show the entranceway of Bang Khun Thian temple (菩薩壇) from the perspective of inside the temple courtyard. Image 01 and Image 02 show the gate from the right, and Image 03 shows the gate from the left. Atop of the gate are two mirrored dragons made of tile, and the outside of the gate features metal-detailed lotus flowers in vases. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen

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Title	Entranceway of the Bang Khun Thian Temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇)
Creator	Anderl, Christoph; Johansen, Kira; Thomson, Oliver; Sirothphiphat, Saly
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2023-11-27
Description	Bang Khun Thian (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) is a three-winged Guanyin (觀音) temple in Bangkok, Thailand. The temple houses both Buddhist and Daoist deities, even though the main altar is dedicated to Guanyin. The following images show the entranceway of Bang Khun Thian temple (菩薩壇) from the perspective of inside the temple courtyard. Image 01 and Image 02 show the gate from the right, and Image 03 shows the gate from the left. Atop of the gate are two mirrored dragons made of tile, and the outside of the gate features metal-detailed lotus flowers in vases. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen
Subject	Bang Khun Thian Temple; Buddhism; Guanyin; Dragon; Lotus; Vase
Geographic Location	Bangkok (Thailand); 13.6327428; 100.4072747
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliations: Ghent University, Florida State University, Edinburgh University, Harvard University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2024-05-15
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0443336
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88293
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Graduate; Undergraduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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