The inner walls of this large hall in a Chinese temple in Nonthaburi, are decorated with square wooden panels carved with Golden Lotuses (fig.).

In the centre of these flowers is an image of the Buddha, surrounded by the eight Lokapalas, one on each petal. Surrounding these wooden panels with lotuses are thousands of small Buddha images, said to represent the words spoken by the Sakyamuni Buddha. Alternatively, and especially if displayed in a cone-shaped, pagoda-like structure in Chinese temples (fig.), they are believed to symbolize the ten thousand bodhisattvas of the Three Ages of Buddhism, as known in Mahayana Buddhism.