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This miniature icon of the Buddha seated in bhadrasana and expounding the dharma is among the earliest known renderings of the subject from the Mon territories. It was reportedly found in U Thong, Suphanburi Province. The Mon city of U Thong was a major early moated urban polity in central Thailand, long associated with Buddhism thanks to its strategic location on both river and land routes between the coast and the hinterland.
cat. no. 23
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