Dvaravati : Belief and Religious Dimension

Abstract

Dvaravati was an ancient kingdom in Thailand before the Sukhothai period. This kingdom was meant as a commercial door and was the name of the city of Lord Krishna in the Epic Mahabharata. The age limit was between the 12th and 16th Buddhist centuries. The city believed to be the center had 3 places, namely the ancient city of Nakhon Pathom, U Thong ancient city, and the ancient city of Si Thep. People in this kingdom worshipped Animism like people in Southeast Asia, Brahmanism, Theravada, and Mahayana Buddhism. The art of Buddhism in the early stages was the same as the prototypes of India's Gupta art. It, later, evolved into a true pattern of Dvaravati itself around the 13th-15th Buddhist century.