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060. Tat Kong Khao Noi - Yasothorn

Title Thumbnail & Hero Image: Kong Khao Noi Sanctuary, access date: June 17, 2022.
060. Tat Kong Khao Noi or Kong Khao Noi Sanctuary - Yasothon⁰¹.

First revision: Jun.05, 2022
Last change: Jul.08, 2022
Searched, Gathered, Rearranged, and compiled by Apirak Kanchanakongkha.

Phra That Tad Thong (the pagoda of Tad Thong Temple) was built in the 18^th century. The construction of this monument might be related to a folktale saying that villagers of a village heard of the renovation of the Phra That Phanom and decided to compile their valuable and holy objects to put inside of Phra That Phanom. On their way to Phra That Phanom when arriving at the village of Tad Thong, they met a group of villagers from another village who just returned from Phra That Phanom since the renovation was completed. Therefore, the villagers decided to put all of their valuable and sacred objects in a new under-construction pagoda that has become Phra That Tad Thong. Phra That Tad Thong is a tower-shaped pagoda built of bricks in a square plot on a multi-tiered base, with the top part in the form of a lotus. There are niches located at all 4 corners of the pagoda. In the past, there might be Buddha images situated in the niches. Also found at this temple complex are boundary stones dating to the Dvaravati period and a group of models of smaller pagodas. In front of Phra That Tad Thong, there is a traditional Northeastern-style house in a square plot, where a Buddha image in the Subduing Mara poses made by a local artist was enshrined.

Buddha Image, Laos Art, Circa B.E.century 24^th, access date: June 17, 2022

Phra That Tad Thong was officially registered as a national ancient monument, published in the Royal Gazette on September 27, 1936, and the temple area was officially demarcated and published in the Royal Gazette on January 15, 2009, with a total area of approximately 0.56 acre.

Dvaravati Art "Bai Sema" Stone, access date: June 17, 2022.

Sources, Vocabulary & Narratives:
⁰¹. from sign board at Kong Khao Noi Sanctuary, The 9^th Regional Office of Fine Arts Department, Ubon Ratchathani, access date: June 17, 2022.

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