Buddhist Images at Wat Mahathat, Ayudthya

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Wat Mahathat is typical of the Ayutthaya ruins: large crumbling stupas surrounded by low laterite walls and rows of headless Buddhas. One Buddha-head is in a tree trunk. The temple's prang is one of the old city's most impressive edifices. With its picturesquely ruined stupas, Wat Mahathat is a great place to be at sunset. Scattered around the temple are some important remains of variously shaped prangs and chedis, in particular an octagonal chedi with a truncated spire in the Ceylonese style. Nearby, the head of a still much revered statue of the Buddha lies on the ground.

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Size: 5530px × 3686px
Location: Ayutthaya, Thailand
Photo credit: © John Lander / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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