Photo Field Observation

Instructor : Dr Leanna Wolfe

Anthropology 121

Photo and Prepared by - Madelen Hem

Date compeletion – June 23rd, 2013

Same Same BUT DIFFERENT!

This is the main hall of the temples and how it looks from the front. The main

temples is decorated with unique cultural design ideas and colored in gold, red and

white. There are two clone giant sculptures stood side by side of the temple

gate, with demon facial expression, said that it‟s the symbol to protect all the evil

spirit away from the temples.

This is also known as a sacred place inside the temples. The sacred place here is called „God Jatukarm

Ramathep‟. He was the legend.

• “Guan Shi Yin / Guanyin” statues as

sacred places.

• Guan Yin was a Chinese-God-

Woman, she was a symbol of

luck, beauty and kind. She known as

„The God of Mercy‟

• This is a very unique tree I

found around the area of

the temple. Beneath the

tree, there were many small

statues of Buddha, while

the trunk of the tree were

wrapped around a cloth

that was colored in gold.

• Inside the main temple, on

the altar; in the

middle, there was a giant

gold Buddha and

surrounded him were other

statues of Buddha too.

They were all colored in

gold. It is a sacred place

where natives come to pray

and monks do their sermon

here.

• Natives and visitors need

to sit with legs and knees

bend behind their back as

they bowed thrice to show

their respects to his

Buddha.

• As you can see, there are 5 silver bowl were placed there.

• Each silver bowl is like a donation box, where people whose comes can

donate, each silver bowl has different purposes.

• And just right behind there, you can see „Holy Water‟, the water symbolize luck.

You can use the water to wash your face/hair just so to bring lucks into your life.

• The native kids also visited the temples to study, participate and practiced their

very own religion ritual. They were wearing normal/casual clothes.

• The boxes that were placed there was

like boxes of donation including various

merchandise that the monks could use.

• I was told that we could pay at any

amount for the box and the money

would go to the temples‟ donation box

and the box itself will be given to the

monks.

• This is a religious practices, the monks

will later perform the sermon as they

dedicated all these stuffs to the relatives

that already passed away.

• As i came out, I also saw people paid

respect to this another sacred place inside

the temples as well. The statues represents

god and beside there, His Buddha‟s head.

• In front of this little sacred place, there

placed two lions figure, which represents

as the protector of the god, chase away all

the evil spirits.

• This is recognized as pile of white dust, they were used as for place where people can stick

their incenses on it after praying and bowing to the Buddha. Natives usually uses 3 stick of

incenses, which in Thai religious practice, had it said that, one of the incense is for those

who passed away, another one is for everybody and another one is for themselves. Sticking

up incense in the white dust usually meaning the end of ritual performance. Some would do

this in the beginning. Its all fine. Lit up incense is for the purpose of praying and paying

respect to the Buddha.

Thank you for your attention!

BY : Madelen Hem

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