Travel Thailand Haiku - It's Carte Blanche For The Buddha Poem by john tiong chunghoo

Thailand
everywhere carte blanche
for the buddha

Everywhere one goes in Thailand, one would see a Buddha. There are temples everywhere. In Sukhotai, and Ayuthaya there are ruins where one could see huge Buddhas still standing after many centuries. There are crystal buddhas said to be be more than a thousand years. In Thailand, it is carte blanch for the buddha wherever he wants to be.

The bodhi roots now
holds up the Buddha's
head

At the compound of one of the great temples in Ayuthaya sacked by
the Burmese in the 19th Century, a severed stone buddha head can now be seen held up by the roots of the bodhi tree. It is said that someone must have tried to get away with the head but dropped it afterwhich the bodhi tree went to work with its roots. There is also a belief that the head of the buddha was severed by the Burmese armies when they sacked Ayuthaya, then one of the most beautiful cities in the East..




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