Buddhist Bangkok Temple Square

A guide in our water taxi, on the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, said that there are around 30,000 Buddhist shrines and temples in Thailand today. The following photos are views in and around a well-known temple, Wat Pho - the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. 

This is a very long temple, as you see looking from the Buddha's feet toward his smiling face.

"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings..."

This is one of the dozens of designs inlaid in the soles of the Buddha's sandals, done in mother-of-pearl. 

Mural detail from the interior walls. 

Here, outside, a door frames a door which frames yet another door...

My reflection in a window of one of the buildings in the temple complex.

(Who would have thought, 2000 years ago, that The Enlightened One would have a Web address? Bodhisattva, indeed!)