Jim Thompson's House

This broken image may be the oldest Buddha image in Thailand. It's a product of Dvaravati, a collection of city-states that controlled what is now western Thailand as early as the 6th century. The people were not ethnically Thai, but were probably related to the Mon, who are now a minority population in both Thailand and Burma. Dvaravati collapsed in the 11th and 12th centuries and fell under the domination of the rising Khmer empire.