Reclining Buddha
Lying sacred figure
A Reclining Buddha is a statue depicting the Buddha lying on his side, typically with his head resting on his hand.
This pose represents the Buddha's final moments before death and entry into nirvana—a state called parinirvana.
Reclining Buddha statues appear throughout Southeast Asian Buddhist temples, some reaching enormous scale: The Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho in Bangkok stretches nearly fifty meters.
- sleepingUnconscious rest state
- lying downIn horizontal position
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- ThailandSoutheast Asian kingdom
- Southeast AsiaTropical peninsula and islands
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