OTHERS – maintain the Ayutthaya administration system:
Central Town: Four Departments (“Jatusadom”): headed by
“KROM” (Director-General), including
•City: Krom Wieng
•Palace: Krom Wang
•Finance: Krom Klang
•Agriculture - Lands: Krom NA (Na – literally rice farms)
Decentralisation
•Major towns (Muang Look-luang)
•Beyond major towns (Fortress towns)
•Colonies
II. RELIGION:
A.Issuing ecclesiastical laws (laws about religions)
B.Reestablishing monkhood: appointing the most learned and disciplined monks to positions of leadership: appointing the first Supreme Patriarch of Thai Buddhism
C.Reviewing a definitive text of the Pali-language Tripitaka (พระไตรปิฎก) the scriptures of Buddhism
D.Building temples, and encouraging monks’
education.
All other religions were welcome and have hold to their beliefs in Siam since then until now
III. LAW: establishing, revising, and editing a definitive text of all laws having been enforced since Ayutthaya, but some were irregular or defective so that they would be in accordance with justice.
… completed in B.E. 2347
Most of the texts were laws from the Ayutthaya era which had survived the destruction of Ayutthaya in 1767
•This resulted in a well known national code: “the Three Seals Laws” (“กฎหมายตราสามดวง”) - having been used for 103 years until the legal reformation in King Rama V
Interior Ministry
Defense Ministry
Finance Ministry
(Now the emblem of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
IV. ARCHITECTURE:
•Wat/Temple Phra Sri Sanphet – Ayutthaya – the model of the Emerald Bhuddha Temple of Ratanakosin
•The Temple, built on the palace compound, intended for royal religious ceremonies
•No monks resided
V. ARTS: e.g.
Gilded Black Lacquer/Design Washed with Water/Lai Rod Nam (ลายรดน้า )
Dhamma book chest (ตู้พระธรรม)
•Dhamma book chest
•DESIGN: 'Gilded Black Lacquer' / 'Lai Rod Nam'