Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Jatukarm

Lord Khattugama

Lord Ramadeva


Chatukarm Ramathep is 2 guardian deities, Khattugama and Ramadeva, who preserve the relics in Nakhon Si Thammarat (the south province of Thailand).
In the faith of Brahmanism, Chatukarm is a high level god. When Buddhism spreaded to the Southeast Asia, Lord Khattugama and Lord Ramadeva were changed their status to the god named "Chatukarm" to preserve the relics.
The talisman is connected in the popular imagination to the Great Stupa of Nakhon Si Thammarat. According to respectable tradition the relics enshrined in the Great Stupa there came from Sri Lanka and the stupa was established with the assistance of traders from Sri Lanka, where Buddhism has always been protected by Hindu gods.

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