Emerald Buddha in Thailand
On November 07, 2009 in General
The Emerald Buddha is a model of a sitting Budha, that’s the is the palladium of the Dominion of Thailand. The Buddha is made from green jade, suprisingly not of emerald, dressed in gold is roughly forty five cm tall. The Buddha is kept in the Chapel of the Emerald Buddha, which is found on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Legend tells that the Emerald Buddha was made in Pataliputra, India, which is now the town of Patna in 43 BCE by Nagasena. Other great historians beleive that it belongs to the Chiang Saen Style of the fifteenth century. The legend announces that, it stayed in Pataliputra for three hundred hundred years, till it was brought to Sri Lanka to put it aside from a civil war. It was then in 457, that King Anuruth of Burma sent out orders to Ceylon to request the Emerald Budha and Buddhist scriptures. This request was given, however the ship that was brining the Buddha to Burma, became lost in a tempest and ended up in Cambodia.
The Buddha made it’s way thru many hands after that : Ayutthaya, Kamphaeng Phet, Lao and eventually Chiang Rai.
It was ultimately in Chiang Rai the ruler of the town hid it. It was not until 1434 that sources indicate the resurfacing of the statue in North Thailand. The Emerald Buddha was dug out and the people thought the marionette was made of emerald, thus its current name.’ though, the Buddha is simply a straightforward jade statue, it is dressed with garments that are made from fine gold.