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[Photograph: Wat Suthat Buddha]
Wat Suthat Buddha
Bangkok, Thailand

A lone monks kneels in front of the Buddha at Wat Suthat. The first of several photographs in the show depicting the Wat Suthat Buddha, this one perhaps best conveys the figure's scale. Known as Phra Si Sakyamuni, the image is one of the largest surviving bronzes from the Sukhothai period, which peaked in the 13th and 14th centuries. Much of the country's finest art and sculpture dates to the Sukhothai era.

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