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Buranathai Buddha Image Foundry

TIME : 2016/2/17 17:01:26

Across the street from Sergeant Major Thawee Folk Museum and also belonging to Sergeant Major Thawee is the small Buranathai Buddha Image Foundry, where bronze Buddha images of all sizes are cast. Visitors are welcome to watch the process, and there are detailed photo exhibits demonstrating the lost-wax method of metal casting. Some of the larger images take a year or more to complete. There is a small gift shop at the foundry where you can purchase bronze images of various sizes.

In addition to the Buddha foundry, there is also a display of fighting cocks, which are bred and sold all over the country. (The official English name for this part of the facility is The Centre of Conservative Folk Cock.)