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| Vat Mune Na: Vaulted chapel and stupa before restoration (M.L.P. 1920) The Monastery of Ten Thousand Rice Fields92 is named in commemoration of the contribution of one meun (a unit of weight, equivalent to 12 kg) of rice from the rice field of each villager at the time of its construction in 1533, during the reign of King Pothisarath. Originally, the vat consisted of a viharn in the simple style featuring a single nave and porch, a stupa and a vaulted chapel. In 1920, it was restored to its original state. Two lateral galleries were added to the viharn in 1949. The decorations in gold relief of the front and rear pediments represent a praying deity on a three-headed elephant. The previous lives of Buddha are depicted on both the external and the internal walls.
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