Next to Wat Chong Kham is Wat Chong Klang where
a replica of the Phra Phutthasihing is installed on an altar.
There are several interesting items such as wooden figurines
of human and animals depicted in the Phra Vejsandon Jakata
(pronounced Cha-dok which means one of odd stories of former
incarnations of the Buddha) created by Burmese craftsmen
and brought over in 1857, paintings on glass about the Jakata
and on Prince Prince Siddhartha, as well as on the ways
of life of the time. The captions are in Burmese. There
are also notations that the paintings were by Thai Yai artisans
from Mandalay.
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