Entranceway to the Left Wing of the Bang Khun Thian Temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇)

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Entranceway to the Left Wing 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 the left wing of the Bang Khun Thian temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) (Image 01). Image 02 shows the three paintings on the right of the entranceway. The top painting is a narrative depiction, the middle painting depicts lotus flowers, and the bottom painting depicts chrysanthemums. Image 03 shows the inscription atop the entranceway, which reads 入聖, meaning "to become an arhat." Image 04 shows the paintings to the left of the entranceway. The top painting in this photo again is a narrative depiction, with the small inscription that reads, 孟宗哭竹, which may be a saying derived from the story Mencius by the Chinese author Mencius (孟子). The middle painting depicts bamboo, and the bottom painting depicts lotus flowers and a small fish. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen.

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Title	Entranceway to the Left Wing 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 the left wing of the Bang Khun Thian temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) (Image 01). Image 02 shows the three paintings on the right of the entranceway. The top painting is a narrative depiction, the middle painting depicts lotus flowers, and the bottom painting depicts chrysanthemums. Image 03 shows the inscription atop the entranceway, which reads 入聖, meaning "to become an arhat." Image 04 shows the paintings to the left of the entranceway. The top painting in this photo again is a narrative depiction, with the small inscription that reads, 孟宗哭竹, which may be a saying derived from the story Mencius by the Chinese author Mencius (孟子). The middle painting depicts bamboo, and the bottom painting depicts lotus flowers and a small fish. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen.
Subject	Bang Khun Thian Temple; Buddhism; Guanyin; Lotus; Chrysanthemums; Mencius; Bamboo; Fish
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	10.14288/1.0443343
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88300
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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