the Emerald Buddha Image

[พระคัมภีร์] treatise; textbook; scripture

[พระจันทร์] the Moon

[prefix for the name of the king's son]

[พระไตรปิฎก] [formal term] the Pali cannon or Tripitaka—a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century B.C., divided into one of three parts (ปิฎก [Pitaka]): sermons (Sutta Pitaka), the rules of the Buddhist order (Vinaya Pitaka), and several treatises on philosophy and psychology (Abhidhamma Pitaka)

most revered city; [namely] Bangkok

Relics of the Buddha

[พระพาย] wind; air

[พระมณฑป] cold-water basin with a lid for royal use

[พระราชดำริ] royal idea; thought; initiative

[พระราชอาณาจักร] kingdom; domain; territory

Buddhist supreme patriarch

[Royal word] age

the king's signature

preceptor; priest who officiates at an ordination ceremony

to flirt with; whisper sweet nothings

[Thai transcription of foreign loanword] present; to present

Dark Day May, 1992 [incident in Thai history]

General, Army or Police; four star general

氣; qi; chi; life-force

simultaneously; concurrently; at the same time; in the meantime or interim

[พลาง ๆ] temporarily; briefly; fleetingly; for the time being; momentarily; simultaneously; concurrently; at the same time; in the meantime or interim

to flutter; wave; float (in the breeze); move gracefully and silkily

power steering

[is] likely to occur

father-in-law (wife's father)

warden; jailor

development; name of a road in Bangkok

hybrid

[symbolic bush used in ceremonies]

tracked and armored vehicles