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Thai Heritage Conservation Day - Pad Yot
Four award winning paintings of Fans of Rank, known in Thai as Pad Yot, from the 2005 International Letter Writing Week Painting Competition, under the theme Ecclesiastical Ceremonial Fans.
  1. Design with the Royal Emblem of the 1895 Royal Ceremony in Celebration of King Rama V's Ten Thousand Day Reign
  2. design with the Royal Emblem of King Rama V's 1873 Coronation Ceremony
  3. design with the Royal Emblem of the 1885 Royal Ceremony in Celebration of the duration of King Rama V's Reign, which by then was coterminous in length with that of King Rama IV
  4. design with the Royal Insignia of King Rama V for the 1895 Royal Ceremony in celebration of King Rama V's Ten Thousand Day Reign
  ‘Fan of rank’. A kind of fan attached to a stick and used in certain religious and in royal ceremonies. As a religious fan, it has an approximately 70 cm long handle and is used by high-ranking Buddhist monks when they are invited to perform religious ceremonies. Monastic fans of rank, are usually adorned with monastic emblems, such as the initials and personal logo of a high-ranking monk or with royal emblems often elaborately embroidered in brocade. Royal fans, on the other hand, are usually attached to a much larger handle of about two meters and are used both decoratively and to be carried around in processions accompanying certain royals, sometimes to escort a royal palanquin. They are usually carried by members of the military or held by brahmin priests. Wat Pahk Nahm Phasi Chareun in a royal temple in Bangkok, houses a large and colourful collection of religious pad yot fans. 
Issued Country Thailand
Issued Year 2007
Category Buddhist Symbol Buddhist Arts
Type Commemorative/Special Stamps
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