The Buddha in Lanna : art, lineage, power, and place in northern Thailand /
This work is an in-depth historical study of the Thai tradition of donation of that most iconic of Thai art objects, the Buddha image. Angela S. Chiu introduces stories from tamnan (chronicles), monastic histories and legends from the Lanna region centred in today's northern Thailand.
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press
[2017]
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvn7g7 |
目次:
- Introduction
- Buddha images and devotees : lineages of people and places
- Buddha images and the monkhood : monastic political power beyond the cloister
- Buddha images and place : materializing the Buddha's agency in the landscape
- Buddha images and relics : form, place, and history
- Buddha images as objects of donation : intention, wishes, and economic value in inscriptions on the bases of images
- Buddha images as objects of transferrable power : the physical and social processes of copying images.