The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. XXIX, Part 1-2, 1936 - Khamkoo

104 REVIEWS OF DOOKS [VOl,. XXIX
inHtge into a more Imlirtnizud one. Foucher is, of course, the great
twthority on the origin of the Buddha illlrtge, hut the r1nthor gives a
,-ery good and instructive description of the various c1ttitudes of the
Budcl!Ht with the characteriAtic mudrn.s or signs of the hamlR by help
of which one is enabled to define the particultLr event, in the lifo of
the great Teacher, which the image represents.
This chapter is rea,lly helpful to students of the inmgeR of the
Buddha, so is the note on unbaked clay ex-votoR (Phra Phim) contributed
by the learned BudclhiRt iconogra,pher, H. R. H. Prince Damrong,
who haR proved,