Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha

Temples in Thailand have tripartite roofs to represent the threefold refuge of the Buddha, the Dharma (teaching) and the Sangha (community of monks).

Some, like this one at Wat Pho in Bangkok, have threefold upon threefold roofs...stunning and quite different from the other temples I had seen.

1 comment:

klimtchick said...

What a wonderful job you have done of capturing the intersecting levels of this beautiful roof structure! Not an easy feat. XOXO