chinthe

plural chinthes

1. A leograph that is often seen at the entrances of Southeast Asian pagodas and temples

   Two of the doors have hintha birds and the one door has a leaping leograph of chinthe.

   1999, Irene Moilanen, Mirrored in Wood: Burmese Art and Architecture, White Lotus Press, page 18

   1 more example

   The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes.

   1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85