Gold palace where Rama was to reign (Thai Ramayana mural)
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- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
- Location
- Bangkok, Thailand
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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This detail image on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the gold palace where Rama’s father announced that Rama would reign. Like many examples of classical Southeast Asian architecture, the palace has a series of ascending tiered roofs and columned halls that face in four cardinal directions, suggesting the king’s control of the entire world. Tha palace is painted with gold leaf paint.
This image was photographed in November 1982.
