Images from Asia: Reclining Buddha in Wat Pho

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Reclining Buddha in Wat Pho

Reclining Buddha in Wat Pho

Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Date: 24 January 2001
Camera: Pentax ZX-50
Back in the day, if you were a king in Thailand the thing to do was apparently to build a big Buddha. Buddhas in the Lotus position were popular, but as kings tried to outdo their predecessors someone realized it would be easier to make a big Buddha that was lying down. This huge statue, which is forty-six meters long and fifteen meters high, was the result.