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  Wat Tham Pha Daen

 

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Wat Tham Pha Daen is a Buddhist temple in Sakon Nakhon located on a cliff overlooking the area and which besides various religious bas-reliefs carved out into the bedrock of the cliff also features the Maha Rajanahkahb Rirak Buddha image which is seated in the pahng nahg prok pose on a coiled seven-headed naga.

 

From the head to the tail tip, the naga is 139 meter long and the tail runs along the rocks of the cliff over a large part of the complex.

 

  Wat Tham Pha Daen

 

  Wat Tham Pha Daen

 

The tail passes by several rock carvings, including a large Buddhapada and bas-reliefs of the Buddha and the Hindu deity Shiva, and ends up in the temple's lush, tropical, landscaped garden.

 

It passes another giant bolder topped with a rock reminiscent of the Golden Rock in Myanmar (fig.) and with carvings on all sides, including of senior monks, a reclining Buddha and a Garuda.

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  Wat Tham Pha Daen