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Special Items: Wood Frame Carving - Dragon [1/2] |
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 The dragons were asthetically carved on the two planks of teak, also framed by teak.
The dragon is believed by the natives of Southeast Asia to offer protective power to the owner. Such a belief still has influence nowadays on the people, living especially along the banks of the Mekong river, in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
The dragon has a profound impact on the lives of people of Thailand and Laos. Most of the temples in Thailand and Laos have been adorned with the dragons along the stairs to the temples. The dragons are also related to Buddhism in China in one way or another to a certain extent. From most of the paintings, we can also see female Bodhisattva Kuan Yin or Guan In (also know as Quan Shi Yin and Kwan Yin) riding on the dragon in the sea. As such, the dragons are considered as a kind of sacred animals.
The dragon is also called 'Praya Naka' by Thai and Laotian. In Thailand, we also have the sacred stones called the Dragon Diamonds ('Petch Praya Naka'). These kinds of stone come in transparent white, red, green and blue, etc. Our revered monk explained to us that these Dragon Diamonds are used by the hermits as a kind of meditation by rubbing to make them round several thousand of years ago; meditation is one of the paths to the enlightenment in Buddhism. The Diamonds have been moved by the undercurrent for thousand of years, helping make them rounder. Of most important, these Diamonds had been safe guarded by Praya Naka in the cave under the river.
The images below display the right plank of this wood carving, top down from left to right. |
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