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The Great Epics

The Ramayana That Became Thai

Hanuman is white, carries a trident, and is not celibate. The story is the same and almost nothing else is.

In Bangkok, on the walls of the temple that holds the Emerald Buddha, the Ramayana runs for more than a kilometre, in painted panels.

And the man on the walls is not called Rama. He is Phra Ram, and he is Thai.

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