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Chinese-Buddhist design with a large-body Buddha image surrounded by a large bell line




The bell-line rolling in confirms the Somdej's high age






























Somdej Toh (B.E.2331-2415), the creator and blesser

2405-2411年顺德瓦拉康寺 部沛物质
Somdej Wat Rakang
Phim Phra Pradhan,
Lang Rieb,Nua PoonPetch,
Chinese Buddhists' Design
B.E.2405-2411



Dimensions: 2.4 X 3.7 cm
Material(s): ground burned seashells + kaolin + Somdej Toh's holy materials
Item Ref: pp29413

This is a PAS Somdej Wat Rakang, Phim Phra Pradhan, Nua PoonPetch, created and blessed by Somdej Toh, during B.E. 2405-2411.

Phra Pradhan = the principal Buddha image

Nua PoonPetch = a mixture of burned & ground seashells mixed with kaolin clay

Lang Rieb = flat back

This flat-back Somdej PoonPetch is of Chinese-Buddhist design. The Buddha image has a large-body size which is a popular design favored by Chinese Buddhists implying abundance and wealth.

Chinese Buddhists' Nua PoonPetch Somdej have 2 styles, one is of Chinese-character back and the other the flat back with large-body Buddha image surrounded by a large bell line as seen above.

Nua PoonPetch is a kind of many content/texture of PAS Somdej Wat Rakang. Nua PoonPetch has its specific physical characteristics, it's rather hardly to make fake for this kind of content/texture.

Nua PoonPetch has very fine grain and white color like milk.

Generally, Somdej Nua PoonPetch have less or hardly to find holy materials, but this piece have some of them as appearing on the surface.

Enlarged pics of the surface from microscope, we will see Somdej Toh's holy materials:

- green holy earth
- red-brown fragments of Kampaengpetch amulets
- gray holy stone
- yellow holy earth

These are authentic features of the PAS Somdej Wat Rakang, Phim Phra Pradhan, LangRieb.