Hanuman searches the underworld for Ravana's soul
When Hanuman learns Ravana's secret, he travels through the underworld in search of the demon king's hidden soul container. (Learn more)
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A mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts Hanuman in two places as he travels through the underworld landscape in pursuit of Ravana’s hidden soul container.
Huge pink flowering lotus plants and boulders dominate the scene. Hanuman is visible standing on a boulder in the upper right, and again at the bottom center.
As in many of the Emerald Buddha Temple murals, multiple images of the same characters appear in different positions on a single landscape to represent sequential movement in the Ramayana story.
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Photographs by Margery Freeman · Text by Lorraine Aragon
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