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features exterior murals with rural scenes. This small chapel, which had been named 'Chappelle Rouge' by the French, houses a unique reclining Buddha image with the robe curling outward at the ankle. (Dang, I missed that wahhhhhh.) This Buddha figure was exhibited at the Paris Expo in 1931, then taken to Vientiane, & wasn’t returned to Luang Prabang until 1964.
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