Guardians in Front of Bangkok Temple
Wrathful Guardians at the gate of Wat SriboonReung, a Buddhist temple in Bangkok near the Mall Bangkapi at the final northern station of the small Bangkok river taxi.
These guards are supposed to keep out all evil – demons and ghosts, which are representations of destructive human emotions like anger, hate, intense desire, fear and others.
What’s typical for Thai temples is that they are stuffed as you can see if you look behind the guardians. There’s a bottle of washing detergent and then behind is there some other stuff stored below a buddhist donation shrine – it’s not an extremely tidy place, but it’s an alive place, a place that is frequented every day by hundreds of people. It’s really an integral part of everyday life.
