page_title: Reclining Buddha
section_title: Notable examples
hierarchical_section_title: Reclining Buddha / Notable examples
caption_attribution_description: English: Golden gilded reclining Buddha at Sambok Mountain in Kratie, Cambodia
context_page_description: A reclining Buddha is an image that represents Buddha lying down and is a major iconographic theme in Buddhist art. It represents the historical Buddha during his last illness, about to enter the parinirvana. He is lying on his right side, his head resting on a cushion or relying on his right elbow, supporting his head with his hand. After the Buddha's death, his followers decide to build a statue of him lying down. They first built the reclining Buddha inside the Wat Pho Temple then, decades later, they started making the sculpture everywhere in South East Asia.
  This pattern seems to have emerged at the same time as other representations of the Buddha in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara.
context_section_description: Burma:
  Winsein Tawya Buddha (Mawlamyaing) - 182.9 metres (600 ft)
  Thanboddhay Pagoda (Monywa) - 101 metres (331 ft)
  Myathalyaung Buddha (Bago) - 82 metres (269 ft)
  Lawka Tharahpu Buddha (Dawei) - 73.6 metres (241 ft)
  Chaukhtatgyi Buddha Temple (Yangon) - 66 metres (217 ft)
  Shwethalyaung Buddha (Bago) - 54.8 metres (180 ft)
  Manuha Temple (Bagan)
  Phowintaung, near Monywa
  Cambodia:
  West side of the Baphuon in Angkor
  Monolithic Buddha of the Phnom Kulen (lying on his left side)
  Golden gilded Buddha on Sambok Mountain in Kratié Province (on his right side)
  China
  Dafo Temple, Zhangye
  Pakistan:
  Bhamala Buddha Parinirvana which is 1,800 years old, oldest in the world.
  India:
  Cave #26 of Ajanta
  Indonesia:
  Maha Vihara Mojopahit, Trowulan, East Java.
  Japan
  Kongōbu-ji at Mount Kōya.
  Nanzoin temple, in Fukuoka Prefecture.
  Malaysia:
  Wat Chayamangkalaram in Pulau Tikus, Penang
  Sam Poh Tong Temple in Ipoh, Perak
  Wat Phothivihan in Tumpat, Kelantan
  Sri Lanka:
  Dambulla
  Gal Vihara in Polonnaruwa (12th century)
  Tajikistan:
  Buddha of Ajina-Tepa (13 meters long), on display in the National Museum in Dushanbe
  Thailand:
  Wat Dhammachaksemaram (reclining Buddha of the 7th century in Dvaravati style coming from Muang Sema)
  Wat Lokaya Sutharam in Ayutthaya
  Wat Pho of Bangkok
  United States
  Linh Son Temple in Sante Fe, Texas
  
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caption: Golden gilded reclining Buddha at Sambok Mountain in Kratié, Cambodia[2]
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