The Meditation Temples of Thailand
Author : Joe Cummings
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Joe Cummings
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Karl Döhring
Publisher : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Carol Stratton
Publisher : Silkworm Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1627767088
As you walk through a Thai temple, a host of unfamiliar objects, shapes, and patterns tug at you from every direction. This handy and lucid guidebook will help you distinguish what is what. It takes you through a representative Thai Buddhist temple, guiding you from structure to structure and element to element, explaining the function and purpose of each, and the symbolism behind the forms. A Thai wat can be a place of bewildering beauty, but this illustrated companion will help you focus your eye and identify what you see. Tourists and residents, novices and scholars will all gain a clearer sense of what a wat is and the role it plays today in the lives of Thai people. Highlights - Detailed guide to Thai temple compounds - Definitions and explanations of architectural elements and structures - Richly illustrated with examples - Presents the temple in the context of Thai society - Author is an art historian specializing in Thai Buddhist art
Author : Brooke Schedneck
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295748931
Temples are everywhere in Chiang Mai, filled with tourists as well as saffron-robed monks of all ages. The monks participate in daily urban life here as elsewhere in Thailand, where Buddhism is promoted, protected, and valued as a tourist attraction. Yet this mountain city offers more than a fleeting, commodified tourist experience, as the encounters between foreign visitors and Buddhist monks can have long-lasting effects on both parties. These religious contacts take place where economic motives, missionary zeal, and opportunities for cultural exchange coincide. Brooke Schedneck incorporates fieldwork and interviews with student monks and tourists to examine the innovative ways that Thai Buddhist temples offer foreign visitors spaces for religious instruction and popular in-person Monk Chat sessions in which tourists ask questions about Buddhism. Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand also considers how Thai monks perceive other religions and cultures and how they represent their own religion when interacting with tourists, resulting in a revealing study of how religious traditions adapt to an era of globalization.
Author : Santi Leksukhum
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN :
"Santi Leksukhum's text traces the complex history of these paintings. It examines the development of their distinctive style, from the arrival of Buddhism, to the overwhelming influence of the royal workshops of Bangkok to the incorporation of Western techniques as Thailand opened to the West in the mid-nineteenth century." "The renowned French photographer Gilles Mermet made several expeditions to Thailand to photograph these magnificent murals especially for this volume.".
Author : Phra Peter Pannapadipo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1409036804
At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped it would be. In this truly extraordinary memoir, Phra Peter Pannapadipo describes his ten-year metamorphosis into a practicing Buddhist monk, while being initiated into the intricacies of an unfamiliar Southeast Asian culture. Phra Peter tells his story with compassion, humour and unflinching honesty. It's the story of a 'Phra Farang' - a foreign monk - living and practicing his faith in an exotic and intriguing land.
Author : Joe Cummings
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Jane Hamilton-Merritt
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0285640720
It is rare for a foreign woman to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self, the expansion of her consciousness. In a personal account of her struggles, her fears and her experiences - some euphoric, some terrifying, some beautiful in the form of psychedelic visions and some that were genuinely threatening. A Meditator's Diary is an intellectually disciplined attempt to understand what Buddhist meditation techniques have to offer us, those in the Western world caught up in a cycle of destruction that we cannot control, and shows how to access its secrets. Jane Hamilton-Merritt describes her own dawning understanding of 'compassion without attachment', her eventual arrival at a state of peace and reconciliation and the sense of living flow with the whole of the universe that has transformed her life. Encouraging her readers to try meditation she describes how we can take the first steps on the long road to tranquillity for ourselves.
Author : Joanna Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139487841
In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassanā meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns) living in monastic communities. For them, meditation becomes a central focus of life and a way to transform the self. This ethnographic account of a thriving Northern Thai monastery examines meditation in detail, and explores the subjective signification of monastic duties and ascetic practices. Drawing on fieldwork done both as an analytical observer and as a full participant in the life of the monastery, Joanna Cook analyzes the motivation and experience of renouncers, and shows what effect meditative practices have on individuals and community organization. The particular focus on the status of mae chee - part lay, part monastic - provides a fresh insight into social relationships and gender hierarchy within the context of the monastery.
Author : Joe Cummings
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Buddhist architecture
ISBN : 9789814408523
Profiles 42 of the most important and significant temples located across Thailand