Sunday, September 25, 2011

အာရုဏ္ဦးဘုရား

အပိုင္း(၁)
Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn, is one of Bangkok's best know landmark. It stands on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River in Thon Buri. Wat Arun is best seen from the opposite bank of the river; it glistens in the sunlight during the day and stands dark and noble at dawn or dusk. A visit to the beautiful, peaceful monastery complex surrounding the familiar towers is very worth-while. These towers, the "Phra Prang," although best known, the only part of Wat Arun. It also contains narrow lanes; elegant, old white buildings; shrines, pools of turtles;
The monastery has existed for many years since the days when Ayutthaya was capital of Thailand. It was then named Wat Mokok, situated in a place called Tumbol Bangmakok. The word Bangmakok, meaning " Village of Olive", has since been shortened to " Makok". 

When King Taksin and his army reached this place to build his new capital Thonburi, after defeating the Burmese who had sacked Ayutthaya, he arrived at dawn. He renamed the monastery he found there Wat Jaeng- Jaeng meaning "clear", "bright" and Construction of the tall prang and four smaller ones was started by King Rama II   1809-1824  and completed by King Rama III (1824-1851). The towers are supported by rows of demos and monkeys. Very steep and narrow steps lead to a balcony high on the central tower. The circumference of the base of the structure is 234 meters, and the central prang is 250 foot high.
Wat Arun

The central balcony commands an impressive view of Bangkok across the river. From here one can see the Grand palace, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and the spacious Wat Po.
The towers of Wat Arun are built of brick covered with stucco. The decorations are unique; thousands of pieces of multicolored Chinese porcelain. In niches in the central tower are green figures of the God Indra seated on Erawan, the traditional Thai three-headed elephant. Niches in the smaller towers contain figures of the Moon God, on a white horse. The trident of Shiva extends from the top of each tower.

Wat Arun figures in one of Thailand's most colorful festival, the Royal Tod Kathin. Then His Majesty the King travels down the river in a procession of Royal barges to present new robes to the monks after their three-month lent period.(ref; www.watarun.org)

1 comment:

ေခ်ာ(အစိမ္းေရာင္လြင္ျပင္) said...

ဘုရားလာဖူးတာဗ်ိဳ႕..
ဒါေပမဲ႔ ဓာတ္ပံုေတြဖူးရတာ အားမရဘူး
ကိုယ္တိုင္လာမွ ေသခ်ာဖူးမယ္
အိမ္ရွင္ ထမင္းေကၽြးပါ ဒါဘဲ း)

“သုခအေပါင္းနဲ႔ ျပည့္စံုေသာ မဂၤလာႏွစ္သစ္ျဖစ္ပါေစ”


“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဒုတိယအိမ္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံကို ဘုရားလည္း ဖူး၊ ေစ်းဝယ္ထြက္ရင္း၊ ကမ္းေျခေတြမွာလည္း အပန္းေျဖႏိုင္လို႔
သြားလည္ရေအာင္ေနာ္”




“Bliss of Us သို႔ လာလည္ၾကေသာ
ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားအားလံုး ေကာင္းက်ိဳးလုိရာ ဆႏၵမ်ားျပည့္ဝႏိုင္ၾကပါေစ”


ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္
bliss of us

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