UN recognises Wat Pho inscriptions
The UN yesterday declared inscriptions in marble at Wat Pho, etched there in the 1800s, as a "memory of the world".
Published on April 1, 2008
Unesco honoured the historic inscriptions at Phra Chetupon Wimolmangkhalaram temple, or Wat Pho. Abbot Phra Thampanyabodi and his deputy Phra Rajawethi received UN certification yesterday, the anniversary of the death of King Rama III. Phra Rajawethi says the king had vision when he commissioned the inscriptions, which record traditional knowledge, including "hermit" yoga posture, onto 1,360 marble plates in the 1830s. It made the temple the country's first university. Fine Arts Department director-general Kriengkrai Sampatchalit says it will register the inscriptions and consider publishing them in a book. Pakamard Jaichalard, Daily Xpress
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