Naga Altar in the Courtyard of the Bang Khun Thian Temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇)

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Naga Altar in the Courtyard 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 Naga (พญานาค) (那伽) altar in the left corner of the Bang Khun Thian temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) entranceway. Image 01 shows an overview. In front of the Naga statue there is a small golden censer and a water offering. In Thailand, Naga is called Phaya Nak (พญานาค), and it is the national symbol/mythological creature of Thailand (from November 2022). Image 02 shows the perspective of the Naga altar relative to the temple entranceway. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen.

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Title	Naga Altar in the Courtyard 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 Naga (พญานาค) (那伽) altar in the left corner of the Bang Khun Thian temple (โรงเจมหาโพธิสัตว์กวนอิม) (菩薩壇) entranceway. Image 01 shows an overview. In front of the Naga statue there is a small golden censer and a water offering. In Thailand, Naga is called Phaya Nak (พญานาค), and it is the national symbol/mythological creature of Thailand (from November 2022). Image 02 shows the perspective of the Naga altar relative to the temple entranceway. Metadata created and compiled by: Kira Johansen.
Subject	Bang Khun Thian Temple; Buddhism; Guanyin; Naga; Thailand
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	10.14288/1.0443344
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88301
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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