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The ordination hall of Wat Phanan Choeng contains three Buddha images all in the posture of subduing Mara with beautiful mural paintings behind. Two images are assumed to have been built during the Sukhothai period around 1357. They were covered with stucco, lacquered and gilt, probably to hide their value from the Burmese invaders in 1767. In 1963 during a cleaning process, the stucco came off and the metal became visible. One image is in gold measuring a width of 145 cm and a height of 190 cm.) The second one is made from an alloy of copper, silver and gold and measures at width 170 cm and at height is 228 cm. The third image in the middle of thepedestal is an Ayutthaya stucco image covered with gold (width 182 cm - height is 256 cm).

The ordination hall of Wat Phanan Choeng contains three Buddha images all in the posture of subduing Mara with beautiful mural paintings behind. Two images are assumed to have been built during the Sukhothai period around 1357. They were covered with stucco, lacquered and gilt, probably to hide their value from the Burmese invaders in 1767. In 1963 during a cleaning process, the stucco came off and the metal became visible. One image is in gold measuring a width of 145 cm and a height of 190 cm.) The second one is made from an alloy of copper, silver and gold and measures at width 170 cm and at height is 228 cm. The third image in the middle of thepedestal is an Ayutthaya stucco image covered with gold (width 182 cm - height is 256 cm).

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