Phutthamonthon

Phutthamonthon ( Thai: พุทธ มณฑล, even Buddha Monthon written ) is a " Buddhist Park " in the province of Nakhon Pathom to the west of Bangkok, capital of Thailand.

History

The Putthamonthon Park was created in 1957, which is after the Thai calendar, which begins with the birth of the Buddha, the year 2500th The idea for the park, the then General Field Marshal Phibul Songkhram. It should include the name Buddha Monthon wear what about means " Buddha Mandala". The foundation stone for the park was laid by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand already on 29 July 1955 so that after a short construction period of the Visakha Puja Day 1957 was celebrated already here in a dignified environment.

Park

The park has a size of about 400 acres, in Thai Units are exactly 2500 Rai (compared to Central Park in New York is only 337 hectares ). The undisputed center of the park is the large border Buddha statue right in the middle. It is about 16 meters high. ( For their size, there is conflicting information, the Thai tourism authority TAT even thinks that she is more than 40m high. ) It was designed by art professor Silpa Bhirasri and cast in 1981. S. M. King Bhumibol has she christened " Phra Si Sakaya Dasabalayan Prathan Phutthamonthon Sudassana ".

There is next to a huge conference building and a Buddhist museum also several meditation halls, perfectly embedded in Veluvana lie, a bamboo grove with over 100 different species of bamboo in the northwest of the park.

Distributed over the whole area also are artistic representations of four stations from the life of the Buddha:

• The "Birth station ": seven lotus-shaped stones symbolize the first seven steps of the newborn Bodhisattva.
• The " Enlightenment station ": here is the Bodhipanlanka, the seat on which the Buddha under the Bodhi tree learned his enlightenment.
• The "first preaching station": the Buddha's teaching is here through the Great Wheel of Dharma symbolizes the group of five ascetics ( Pancavaggi ), his first audience, by five seats.
• The " Parinibbana station": here is reminiscent of the day on which the Buddha entered into the Nibbana.

Another important building is the marble Wihan. In this building - surrounded on three sides by a lake - the entire Pali Canon is inscribed on 1418 marble steles in golden Thai letters. Modern murals on huge panels on the ceiling of viharn depict the life of Buddha and the ten Jataka ( "Birth Stories " ) dar.