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Man repainting palace scene in Ramayana mural at Emerald Buddha Temple

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Margery H. Freeman
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Man repainting palace scene in Ramayana mural at Emerald Buddha Temple

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A man stands with his back to the camera as he uses his left hand to repaint a palace scene on one of the Ramayana murals at the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok. The mural on which he is working includes large architectural structures viewed in an unusual perspective as if from above and outside the kingdom’s palace grounds.

The original mural paintings in the Emerald Buddha Temple galleries are two hundred years old, but scenes are repainted from time to time under the supervision of the Thai royal family.

This image was photographed in August 1984.