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Wat Thai Watthanaram, a Thai-Burmese Buddhist temple in Mae Sot, in Thailand's Tak province, features many structures, objects and edifices normally associated with temples and architecture in Myanmar.

 

This includes the copious use of gold-coloured tinplate on buildings and statues, like in this one of Manuthiha (fig.), a mythological sphinx-like creature half-man and half-lion, and in the two golden chintha that guard the entrance (fig.).

 

  Wat Thai Watthanaram

 

  Wat Thai Watthanaram

 

In the back is an open-sided hangar with a large reclining Buddha and there are gilded hintha pillars (fig.), as well as a statue with two of those mythical birds, i.e. a female on a male and topped with a small parasol called hti, the symbol of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom.

 

There is a small hall with a statue of Bo Bo Gyi (fig.) and two corridor-like pavilions, one with a row of Buddha images in the bhumisparsa pose, the other with gilded tinplate shrines with statues of various deities and saints.

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  Wat Thai Watthanaram

 

  Wat Thai Watthanaram