Phra Bit Dah

[JimmyTheMook]

Anyone familiar with the significance or meaning of the hands placed over the eyes of this particular type of Buddha posture?

Edited August 24, 2008 by JimmyTheMook

[JimmyTheMook]

Anyone familiar with the significance or meaning of the hands placed over the eyes of this particular type of Buddha posture?

Bump, anyone ?

[camerata]

No idea. It's not in my book of Thai Buddha images.

[sabaijai]

Can you supply a photo?

[JimmyTheMook]

Phra Bit Dah Image

Bit Dah Buddha

[lannarebirth]

Interesting. I'd never seen one before.

http://cgi.ebay.com.my/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...em=190246438673

[camerata]

It's a bit like this one I saw in Cha-am:

[sabaijai]

It's a bit like this one I saw in Cha-am:

Yes I've seen that one before. But is it really the Buddha? I'm trying to recall the official name of that image -- I think it may be a sort of bodhisattva.

[camerata]

We had a topic about it several years ago but I can't find it.

[sabaijai]

The type at Wat Neran Chararam in Cha-am is called พระปิดทวาร - Phra Pit Thawaan - or 'holy entity that closes the (sense) doors'. I've found all kinds of explanations on amulet websites but none that comments one way or the other as to whether it represents the Buddha. The ones that just show hands over the eyes are Phra Pit Taa, although that also seems to be an alternate term used for the ones that show all the sense-doors closed as well.

The fact that you don't see an usnisha, the 'enlightenment bump', on the crown of the head suggests it's not meant to be Buddha.

The one in Cha-am may be the only full-sized statue.

http://images.google.com/images?q=%E0%B8%9...sa=N&tab=wi

[JimmyTheMook]

Interesting site with some info on Phra Bit Dah

Possible Bit Dah Meaning

[camerata]

If you google on Sangajayana you get all kinds of good info. It seems "Sangajayana" (actually Gajayana) was one of the Buddha's disciples and is the model for both Phra Pit Ta and Phra Pit Thawan:

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/teahouse/1428/prapitta.htm

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/teahouse/1428/sangj.htm

However, I don't find any evidence that Gajayana appears as a disciple in the Pali Canon. Perhaps he is a mythical disciple from some later text.

[JimmyTheMook]

If you google on Sangajayana you get all kinds of good info. It seems "Sangajayana" (actually Gajayana) was one of the Buddha's disciples and is the model for both Phra Pit Ta and Phra Pit Thawan:

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/teahouse/1428/prapitta.htm

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/teahouse/1428/sangj.htm

However, I don't find any evidence that Gajayana appears as a disciple in the Pali Canon. Perhaps he is a mythical disciple from some later text.

Very interesting reading, thanks for posting those links !

[sabaijai]

If you google on Sangajayana you get all kinds of good info. It seems "Sangajayana" (actually Gajayana) was one of the Buddha's disciples and is the model for both Phra Pit Ta and Phra Pit Thawan:

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/teahouse/1428/prapitta.htm

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/teahouse/1428/sangj.htm

However, I don't find any evidence that Gajayana appears as a disciple in the Pali Canon. Perhaps he is a mythical disciple from some later text.

Very good, now we now who/what is is, more or less. Seems to be limited to Thai Buddhist mythology?