Chinthe: Perbedaan antara revisi

Seperti halnya ''[[komainu]]'' dari Jepang, ''[[shisa]]'' dari Okinawa dan ''[[Singa Salju]]'' dari Tibet, ''chinthe'' merupakan variasi dari [[singa batu|singa pelindung]] yang ditemukan di [[Tiongkok]].

 

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A princess had a son through her marriage to a [[Asiatic lion|lion]], but later abandoned the lion who then became enraged and set out on a road of terror throughout the lands. The son then went out to slay this terrorizing lion. The son came back home to his mother stating he slew the lion, and then found out that he killed his own father. The son later constructed a statue of the lion as a guardian of a temple to atone for his sin.<ref name="MyanmarImage">{{cite web |publisher=''myanmar-image.com'' |title=Image 5 of 20 |url=http://www.myanmar-image.com/mandalay/misc/image4.html |accessdate=2010-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411034220/http://www.myanmar-image.com/mandalay/misc/image4.html |archive-date=2017-04-11 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref>