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    The mondop (Thai: มณฑป, from Pali/Sanskrit maṇḍapa) is a building form in traditional Thai religious architecture featuring a square or cruciform building...
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    Wat Phra Kaew (redirect from Phra Mondop)
    five-headed crowned Phaya Nagas. The Phra Mondop (พระมณฑป) is situated in the middle of the Than Phaithi. The Phra Mondop is a repository of sacred texts, sometimes...
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    Wat Pho (section Phra Mondop)
    from a tree in India where Buddha sat while awaiting enlightenment. Phra Mondop or the ho trai is the Scripture Hall containing a small library of Buddhist...
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    site plan of classical Dravidian architecture. In Thai, it is called a mondop (มณฑป). It features often in Thai temple art and architecture, either in...
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    Buddha images. It is the assembly hall where monks and laypeople congregate. Mondop (Thai: มณฑป) - specific square- or cruciform-based building or shrine, sometimes...
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    named Phra Phutthamahasuwannapatimakon since 1992, is now housed in the Mondop building, built in 2007. Wat Traimit is a notable example of early post-absolute...
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    on the eastern side assigned a Mondop where Buddha's footsteps are believed to be. The terrace of the Chedi with Mondop was surrounded by a cloister (Phra...
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    kudakhan into several categories, according to the shape of the spire: mondop-shaped, prang-shaped, mongkut-shaped, and others (including stupa-shaped...
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    the Dharmasala, the Chedi of Princess Kantha Bupha and The Phnom Mondop (mount mondop) where the statue of Preah Ko is situated. The wall that surrounds...
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    in the 1920s by the monk Khru Ba Srivichai. The building houses a large mondop structure for an altar surrounded by Buddha statues. One of the standing...
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    living quarters of monks (bhikkhus) separated from the sacred buildings. Mondop (Khmer: មណ្ឌប; Thai: มณฑป; from Sanskrit: Mandapa): usually an open, square...
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    Patiharn Prasat Sadok Kok Thom, Sa Kaeo The Bell Tower The Manohra Garden The Mondop housing the standing footprints of the Lord Buddha, Uttaradit The Palace...
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    reported his find to the king, who ordered workers to build a temporary mondop to cover the footprint; this later became the temple. The Bunnoowaat sutra...
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    sacred area of a temple. A pond and a square mondop are at the southern end of the temple grounds. The mondop features a statue of the Buddha being sheltered...
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    several structures, including Ubosot (ordination hall), Wihan (vihara), Mondop (mandapa), Ho trai (library), and Sala (open pavilion), Ho rakhang (bell...
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    universities. Phra ubosot Interior of the Phra ubosot Phra vihara Phra mondop Buddha idols along a walkway Wat Mahathat temple building Pagoda...
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    song sangha ubosot ('song' meaning 'two' in Thai). The building houses a mondop with the Phrachaotongtip Buddha statue, a smaller version of the Phra Buddha...
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    Buddha's hair, is 50 metres (160 ft) tall. It is flanked by a Burmese-style mondop, with a pyatthat spired roof, that was commissioned by Lampang's governor...
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    operated by the Ministry of Public Health. The provincial seal shows the mondop at the temple Wat Phra Thaen Sila At, in Baan Phra Thaen in the Laplae district...
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    International Gasehm Suwongsa A wooden replica of the mondop, or shrine, in the Thai city of Saraburi. The mondop included an exhibit about cultural traditions...
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    religious architectural elements: Indented corners (Thai architecture) Mondop Prang (architecture) Prasat (Thai architecture) Karnchanaporn, Nuttinee...
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    the Siwalai Garden and the Maha Monthien buildings. The pavilion has a mondop-style roof and a gilded spire, decorated in glass mosaic. The pavilion was...
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    the kingdom's most sacred religious site. Those Chinese burnt down the Mondop or the main building containing the Buddha Footprint, stripping away gold...
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    structure constructed for the Lord Buddha in this monastery. Phra Maha Mondop Phuttabat PhorPorRor. SorKor., built as a homage to King Bhumibol Adulyadej...
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    Composite Square Hexagonal Octagonal Circle Gable with Thai classical ornament Mondop Tetrahedron Pavilion Crown Thai Crown Chedi (bell-shaped) Prang Thai castle...
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    the multi-tiered roof is very similar, but much smaller in size, to the mondop architectural form. The term is derived from the Sanskrit word puṣpaka,...
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  • by the violence. He also noted that there was a record number of Puja Mondops in Bangladesh, partly because of government-funded subsidies. Mirza Fakhrul...
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    sides are of laterite materials with an entrance also made of laterite. A mondop structure houses Buddha statues in four postures-walking, sitting, standing...
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    Vaasana Mahaathera) came to officiate at the ceremonial opening of the a Mondop building there and officially declared Wat Hin Mark Peng to be a 'Model...
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  • earth, water, wind, fire, which are the basic elements of the world. The Mondop Ong Pathom (Chapel of the First Buddha) is a small temple with a sculpture...
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