Abusabok (Thai:บุษบก,RTGS: butsabok) is a small open structure used inThai culture as a throne for the monarch or for the enshrinement of Buddha images or other sacred objects. It is square-based and open-sided, usually withtwelve indented corners, with four posts supporting a roughly pyramidal multi-tiered roof culminating in a pointed spire, and usually richly decorated. The structure of the multi-tiered roof is very similar, but much smaller in size, to themondop architectural form.[1][2][3] The term is derived from theSanskrit wordpuṣpaka, a reference to thePushpaka Vimana, a flying chariot from the Hindu epicRamayana (and the Thai versionRamakien).[4]
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