Tuesday 15 October 2019

Buddha's History On Window Shutters At Phra Mahathat Kaen Nakhon

Each level of the nine story pagoda at Phra Mahathat Kaen Nakhon contains artifacts and painted window shutters. When you land on the fifth floor, you get treated to a nice illustration of Buddha's life and reincarnations. Some of it gets a bit rough. We, ahem, shudder (shutter) to think what his life was like.

Oh, life was pleasurable, all nice stories in an enchanted forest full of a variety of beautiful creatures. Is this image a Disney animation cel?


Not so fast. Slicing and poisoning. That fun forest suddenly seems far away.

No worries. Do you think women grow on trees? They do!


#metoo moment. It's OK for men to spy on bathing women, but women must only conjure their fantasies around the single sex campfire.

Because, well, women: beautiful at first glance, death looming in the shadows.

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