Abstract
It was Professor Stanley O’Connor’s article, “Buddhist Votive Tablets and Caves in Peninsular Thailand,” that sparked my first interest and fascination with votive tablets when I was an undergraduate student. Twelve years later I wrote my PhD dissertation, “The Cult of Votive Tablets in Thailand (Sixth to Thirteenth Centuries),” under his guidance.² Prof. O’Connor’s interpretation of art history has inspired me immensely. This essay, written on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, will explore Buddhist traditions in peninsular Thailand based on the study of votive tablets (seventh–eleventh centuries). From my examination of the votive tablet record, I have reached