Wat Thammachak Semaram
| Wat Thammachak Semaram | |
|---|---|
วัดธรรมจักรเสมาราม | |
 Buddha statue, Dvaravati style, at Wat Thammachak Semaram | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Buddhism |
| Sect | Theravāda |
| Location | |
| Location | Ban Khlong Khwang, Sema subdistrict, Sung Noen district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand |
| Geographic coordinates | 14°55′00″N 101°47′37″E / 14.91667°N 101.79361°ECoordinates: 14°55′00″N 101°47′37″E / 14.91667°N 101.79361°E Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
Wat Thammachak Semaram (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.) is a Buddhist temple at Ban Khlong Khwang in Sema subdistrict, Sung Noen district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand.[1]:104 It stands about 500 m south-west of the ancient town of Mueang Sema and holds a large stone reclining Buddha and a sandstone dharmacakra, both recovered outside the walls of that town and both attributed to the Dvaravati period.[1]:104
Findings
Reclining Buddha
The image has been described as the largest stone reclining Buddha found in Thailand.[1]:104 It has been given as red sandstone, 13 m long and of the 8th century, in a northeastern Dvaravati style, and as the largest such image in the country.[2]:85 Its style has also been read as Dvaravati with local influence, and its date as the 13th Buddhist century, 658 to 757 CE.[1]:104
The figure has been measured at up to 12 m, and read not as a reclining image but as a standing one that later fell.[3]:52–53
Dharmacakra
The sandstone dharmacakra has been taken to be of about the same date as the reclining Buddha and as the town itself.[1]:104 The wheel of the Mueang Sema area is the most easterly yet recovered.[2]:85
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Whangsook, Khemica (January–July 2002). พัฒนาการทางวัฒนธรรมในลุ่มแม่น้ำมูล : กรณีศึกษาแหล่งโบราณคดีเมืองเสมา อำเพอสูงเนิน จังหวัดนครราชสีมา [Cultural development in the Mun River basin: a case study of the Mueang Sema archaeological site, Sung Noen district, Nakhon Ratchasima province]. Damrong Journal of the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University (in ไทย). 1 (1): 101–138. ISSN 3027-6004.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sarah Talbot (2003). "Before Angkor: Early Historic Communities in Northeast Thailand" (PDF). Journal of the Siam Society. 91: 74–89. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2024.
- ↑ Wongthes, Sujit (1983). สุโขทัสยไม่ใช่ราชธานีแห่งแรกของไทย [Sukhothai Was Not the First Royal Capital of the Thai]. Sinlapa Watthanatham special issue (in ไทย). Bangkok: Sinlapa Watthanatham. ISBN 974-8350-36-3. Search this book on
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