BANGKOK - A Buddha statue was unexpectedly found inside a mango tree when it was being cut down during landscaping works at a temple in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi province. It is believed that the statue dates back to the era of the first abbot who lived in the Nongsang...
BANGKOK - A Buddha statue was unexpectedly found inside a mango tree when it was being cut down during landscaping works at a temple in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi province.
The statue was discovered when the current abbot asked monks to improve the temple’s landscape to prepare for a Nov 5 event.While cutting down a 10m-tall mango tree, whose trunk measured 80cm in diameter, the tree cutter stumbled upon a small emerald Buddha statue within the tree’s trunk.S'porean businessman shot 20 times in air gun attack in ThailandThe monk explained that a tree cutter had been brought in from outside, as he needed to remove the wood from the premises.
Initial inspection suggested that the statue was quite old, possibly over 100 years, and likely from the era of the first temple abbot.
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