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On screen and on the wall

The statues, the films and the song that taught most of the world the word.

Film

Ong-Bak

1987porsche944 · CC BY 2.5

องค์บาก

Prachya Pinkaew's film, starring Tony Jaa, which sold muay boran to an international audience that had never heard of it.

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Sculpture

The fifteen, standing in a courtyard

Kasom SKULTAB · CC BY-SA 3.0

รูปปั้นแม่ไม้ วัดบางกุ้ง

Wat Bang Kung in Samut Songkhram — an Ayutthaya-period temple wrapped in the roots of a banyan — has the mae mai and luk mai set up in its grounds as…

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Text

The epic in the technique list

Ms Sarah Welch · CC BY-SA 4.0

รามเกียรติ์ในสังเวียน

The Ramakien — the Thai telling of the Ramayana — supplies the cast of the curriculum: Rama, Hanuman, Thotsakan, Sida, Erawan, the nagas, the…

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