Ayutthaya Buddha Head in Tree Roots

Although this is not the picture of the most prosperous era

we enjoy exploring attractive world heritage site in Thailand

such as this buddha head in tree roots

 

 

‘Wat Mahathat’ is a famous temple in Ayutthaya with the unseen attraction, the Buddha head in tree roots. This Buddha head statue attracts tourists from around the world to see it. This limestone Buddha head statue is the highlight of Wat Mahathat and Ayutthaya city. The tree roots naturally covering the statue make visitors feel astonished.

This doesn’t typically emerge anywhere.

 

Wat Mahathat – Ayutthaya Temple

Not only one temple in Thailand has the name as ‘Mahathat’. There are Mahathat temples in some provinces of Thailand besides Ayutthaya. ‘Maha’ means Great. ‘That’ means relic. After the Buddha passed away, Monks brought his relics to many areas and many kingdoms where those monks journeyed to teach Buddhism. With the faith of Buddhism, after people understood Buddhism, they built the stupas at the religious place. Monks gave them the Buddha’s Relics. They preserved at the stupas. So, the temples which have the relics are named ‘Mahathat’. The Mahathat temple in Ayutthaya used to be the house of Buddha’s Relic before the government moved the relic to be preserved at another temple by the order of the king.

 

Ayutthaya Buddha Head Statue

The reputation of Wat Mahathat is the Buddha head in tree roots. Some people assume that the Buddha head statue accidentally fell to a part of this strong tree while the the renovation in the past for many years ago. With the attribute of this tree, the roots have been growing and tightly embrace the Buddha head statue. This becomes beautiful and astonishing as it happens magically as we see nowadays. 

 

Tree Roots

The name of this tree is ‘Bodhi Tree’. Buddhist know this tree as the Buddha Tree. It is an important tree in Buddhism because Buddha enlightened under the Bodhi tree. Their roots look fantastic with the complexity of root growing. Bodhi trees are typically found in India and Asia. In Thailand, when we construct temples and local people have Bodhi tree seeds, they are delighted to grow Bodhi trees in those temples’ areas. Buddhist so much respect this tree. Moreover, we will see Bodhi’s leaves as a symbol in Buddhism such as the pattern of objects, an element of bells, drawing pictures, and others.

 

Renowned Photography

This Buddha head in tree roots is unseen for all visitors. UNESCO selects the photo of this attraction to be one of the world heritage photo collections at the head office in France. The photo size is 1 x 1.5 meters. Photographers from around the world want to come to Ayutthaya to take photos of the Buddha head in tree roots. It incredibly concludes many attractions making various feelings in one photo, beauty, mystery, miracle, and faith.

 

What about you?

When you look at the photo of ‘The Buddha Head in Tree Roots’, how do you feel?