THAI ART

Traditional Thai art is primarily composed of Buddhist art. Traditional Thai sculpture almost exclusively depicts images of the Buddha. Traditional Thai paintings usually consist of book illustrations, and painted ornamentation of buildings such as palaces and temples.

Defining marks of a Buddha, as they are set out in ancient Pali texts:

* Skin so smooth that dust cannot stick to it
* Legs like a deer
* Thighs like a banyan tree
* Shoulders as massive as an elephant's head
* Arms round like an elephant's trunk, and long enough to touch the knees
* Hands like lotuses about to bloom
* Fingertips turned back like petals
* head like an egg
* Hair like scorpion stingers
* Chin like a mango stone
* Nose like a parrot's beak
* Earlobes lengthened by the earrings of royalty
* Eyelashes like a cow's
* Eyebrows like drawn bows