Viharn Lai Kham and the Apocryphal Bodhisattva (3)

A self-portrait of the artist of the murals huddles on the middle window. The painters of La Na were the most frequent illustrators of the texts of the Pannasa Jataka. The Pannasa Jataka are 50 “birth stories” based on local folk tales and legends. The official Buddhist canon collects 547 “birth stories”, similar to AEsop’s Fables.

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