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"Published with a grant from the James H. W. Thompson Foundation"--T.p. verso.
Author : Ralph Isaacs
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786162150739
"Published with a grant from the James H. W. Thompson Foundation"--T.p. verso.
Author : San San May
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0295744499
Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West. The British Library has one of the richest collections of Southeast Asian manuscripts, principally from Thailand and Burma, anywhere in the world. It includes finely painted copies of Buddhist scriptures, literary works, historical narratives, and works on traditional medicine, law, cosmology, and fortune-telling. Buddhism Illuminated includes over one hundred examples of Buddhist art from the Library’s collection, relating each manuscript to Theravada tradition and beliefs, and introducing the historical, artistic, and religious contexts of their production. It is the first book in English to showcase the beauty and variety of Buddhist manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never before been photographed.
Author : Musée Guimet (Paris, France)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786162151484
This volume commemorates a new exhibition of Burmese artifacts at the Musée Guimet in Paris and showcases the vibrant art and manuscript traditions of Myanmar. The central pieces displayed in the exhibition were three richly illustrated manuscripts called parabaiks. These vivid paintings, which show lively festivals and the pageantry of daily religious and courtly life, are a window into the culture and customs of nineteenth-century Burma. Also in the exhibition were a number of other manuscripts, inscriptions, diagrams, and even an ornate wooden model of a traditional Burmese monastery. The accompanying essays--translated from the original French exhibition booklet--explore complexities of the Burmese language, manuscript production, and background of the exhibited items as well as explaining the festivities and other spirited scenes illustrated in the parabaiks.
Author : Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic books
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Author : Jens Braarvig
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Buddhism
ISBN :
Author : Charles Edmund Godakumbura
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Buddhist literature, Pali
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Author : James E. Bogle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786162151224
"A Burmese Buddhist manuscript from the mid-nineteenth century is the catalyst for a study of the multifaceted Buddhist cosmos...[T]he author uncovers fascinating details of the Theravada Buddhist cosmos" -- jacket flap.
Author : afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard)
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : Paññasāmi
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Buddha (The concept)
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Author : Patricia M. Herbert
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Burmese
ISBN : 0764931555
Pronunciation, but no index. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).