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With the booming of the economy, the technological communications integrate and dilute different cultures into one another more deeply and frequently than before. Together with this comes the opportunity to understand and appreciate ancient and profound cultures, that still bind nations together. Personally speaking, I used to appreciate Thai traditional arts rather than to research into them. It is only when I moved to Thailand that I got the chance to understand the real beauty of Thai traditional arts. It seemes to me that only when I was trying to understand the culture of a country I managed to appreciate its arts at the same time, especially its traditional arts. When considering Thai culture, or even the living of Thai people, we cannot talk without paying attention to their religion, namely, Buddhism. It is easy for a lay man to notice that Buddhism is present everywhere in Thai people’s life, and the religion has been speak highly by the local people. Consequently, Buddhism influence Thai arts in everywhere. My hometown is Dali, located in Yunnan province, China. Dali is an amazing county, which also bears cultural relations to Thailand. Dali used to be the capital city of the ancient Nanzhao Kingdom and also the Dali Kingdom. At that time, the boundaries between these kingdoms had stretched to the Northern part of today’s Thailand. Nowadays, at the southern part of the chinese province of Yunnan, called Xishuangbanna, we find the Dai and Zhuang ethnic groups, their languages resembling the Thai language to a large degree. At the same time, Buddhism flourished in Dali as well. Buddhism originates in India, and was transmitted to the world from around 2nd B.C., and its prosperous

A Comparative Study of Buddha Images Between the Dali Kingdom of China and the Ayutthaya Mural Paintings of Wat Khongkharam Thailand