Sala Rai or satellite pavilions. Along the main chapel yard both inside and outside (separated by the monastery wall) stand many rectangular platformed pavilions. At first, there was no veranda and was just an open hall (the open area for model hill). The present type of building was later reconstructed I the reign of King Rama III by extending a veranda around with two steps in thee sides (front and both walls).

     Double Pavilions in front of Phra Maha Chedi stand between Phra Maha Chedi and the Chapel.



     North Pavilion is the lirary of the Thai traditional massage inscriptions. There are 32 drawings of massage positions posted on the ceiling of the veranda. At the back, there are inscriptions of Supasit Phraruang (The first Thai proverbs), Kritana Sorn Nong (Thai literature), and portrait of The Royal Kathin Procession.







     South Pavilion (Mae Chua Kumaravej Boran Pavilion) is the collection of inscriptions about the angel who protects babies. It described the illness in babies and how to cure. In the back of this pavilion, there are inscriptions of Ramayana, the episode of Pali Sorn Nong and the painting of the Royal Barge Procession.

     Pavilions around the monastery, there are sixteen of them. The ceilings of the verandas and the main builing are decorated with mural paintings from Akanibart Jataka (550 lives of the Lord Buddha).




     This Jakata is separated into episodes and each pavilion contains 36 different episodes. “Sala Totsachart” stands in the south of Sala Karn Parien (Teaching-learning hall). Each pavilion is also decorated with carved-wood depicting scenes from a literature named Phra Apai Mani and about the general local way of life. The statues of contorted hermit are still in the opening wall as it used to be. The double pavilions for massage in front of the monastery and at Wat Phra Chetuphon School show the model of gardening with rocks. In the small opening wall in front and at the back of each pavilion, there are 32 statues of foreigners of which only 2 were left : Okinawa (Japanese) and Chinese. The mural paintings are not only presented along the pavilions but also on the outer side of the windows of Viharas such as dressing styles of 12 foreigners and Lan Tan (Chinese warrior). Many noblemen such as French, Spanish, English and Japanese (Liew Kiew warrior) are among the 12 foreigner statue.


          Two East Pavilions (near Sanam Chai road) are now classrooms for practising Thai traditional massage and herbal massage.



      Belfry is the time teller of every monastery and in Buddhism it symbolizes “awakening for the noble-truth and the feeling of peace”.

      In Wat Pho, there are 2 bell towers, one in the south and one in the north – with the group of four dynasty pagodas (Phra maha Chedi Si Rajakarn) in the middle, having been built in the reign of ing Rama I and King Rama II respectively. They are tetrahedrons in tweleve nothched-rim structures ending in a tall spire, standing on a high thick pedestal with stairs and boundary wall decorated with multicouloured Chinese mosaics.



 
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