BANGKOK, 6 August 2015 – Her Royal Highness Princess Soamsawali on Wednesday (Aug 5) presided over the ceremony of consecrating seven Buddha images which will be installed as the principal Buddha statues at the Northern Shaolin Monastery in the People’s Republic of China.
The consecration ceremony was held at Trimitr Vityaram Monastery in Samphathawong, Bangkok. The seven Buddha statues are built under the cooperative efforts of Thai and Chinese Buddhist monks. The construction is aimed at paying tributes to Their Majesties the King and Queen and also to Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on the occasion of her fifth cycle birthday anniversary in April 2015.
The cooperation is the first of its kind in the Thai-Sino relations and helps strengthen Buddhist relationship between the two countries. The seven sacred Buddha images were built with the mixture of nine metals called in Thai as Nawa Loha.
Of the seven images, three are seven meters high and have a width of 3.5 meters at their lap. Four others are 4.5 meters high.
