Book Description
History of Northern Thailand.
Author : Saratsawadī ʻŌ̜ngsakun
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
History of Northern Thailand.
Author : Hans Penth
Publisher : Silkworm Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1628409509
Lan Na is the name of a conglomerate of Thai city-states that covered roughly the area of modern north Thailand between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Lan Na's influence reached far into the neighbouring regions, most under the leadership of the city-state of Chiang Mai. Beginning with the popular legends, this wide-ranging narrative takes us through prehistoric and protohistoric periods, through history, up to the present day. While the writing of Lan Na history is still in its infancy, this brief and highly readable volume is a welcome step towards developing a fuller history of Northern Thailand.
Author : Hans Penth
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Rural areas
ISBN :
Author : Angela S. Chiu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824873122
For centuries, wherever Thai Buddhists have made their homes, statues of the Buddha have provided striking testament to the role of Buddhism in the lives of the people. The Buddha in Lanna offers the first in-depth historical study of the Thai tradition of donation of Buddha statues. Drawing on palm-leaf manuscripts and inscriptions, many never previously translated into English, the book reveals the key roles that Thai Buddha images have played in the social and economic worlds of their makers and devotees from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Author Angela Chiu introduces stories from chronicles, histories, and legends written by monks in Lanna, a region centered in today’s northern Thailand. By examining the stories’ themes, structures, and motifs, she illuminates the complex conceptual and material aspects of Buddha images that influenced their functions in Lanna society. Buddha images were depicted as social agents and mediators, the focal points of pan-regional political-religious lineages and rivalries, indeed, as the very generators of history itself. In the chronicles, Buddha images also unified the Buddha with the northern Thai landscape, thereby integrating Buddhist and local conceptions of place. By comparing Thai Buddha statues with other representations of the Buddha, the author underscores the contribution of the Thai evidence to a broader understanding of how different types of Buddha representations were understood to mediate the “presence” of the Buddha. The Buddha in Lanna focuses on the Thai Buddha image as a part of the wider society and history of its creators and worshippers beyond monastery walls, shedding much needed light on the Buddha image in history. With its impressive range of primary sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Buddhism and Buddhist art history, Thai studies, and Southeast Asian religious studies.
Author : Hans Georg Penth
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9789749575666
Author : Hans Penth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Presently part of northern Thailand.
Author : David K. Wyatt
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Chiang Mai (Thailand : Province)
ISBN :
A translation from Dai Yuen of one of the major versions of the Chronicle of Chiang Mai, a major city in northern Thailand, which was the capital of Lanna Thai, a former kingdom in northern Thailand.
Author : Michael Freeman
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Lanna (Kingdom)
ISBN : 9780500976029
The country now known as Thailand achieved its present form in the nineteenth century. Before then for over five hundred years there flourished the independent kingdom of Lanna (one million rice fields). Over the centuries the kingdom developed fascinating and distinctive art, architecture, language and culture. This book explores these elements.
Author : Leslie Castro-Woodhouse
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 150175551X
Woman between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a harem by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic and the political. Dara's role as an ethnic Other among the royal concubines assisted the Siamese in both consolidating the kingdom's territory and building a local version of Europe's hierarchy of civilizations. Dara Rasami's story provides a fresh perspective on both the sociopolitical roles played by Siamese palace women, and Siam's response to the intense imperialist pressures it faced in the late nineteenth century. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author : Claude Jacques
Publisher : River Books Press Dist A C
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Angkor (Extinct city)
ISBN : 9789749863817
The Khmer civilisation centred on Angkor was one of the most remarkable to flourish in Southeast Asia.