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Book Synopsis Buddhist Painting in Cambodia by : Vittorio Roveda
Download or read book Buddhist Painting in Cambodia written by Vittorio Roveda and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title documents the remnants of the rich Buddhist cultural heritage of Cambodia after centuries of wars and destruction culminating with the genocide and cultural annihilation of the Khmer Rouge.
Book Synopsis Framing the Sacred by : Trent Walker
Download or read book Framing the Sacred written by Trent Walker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of paintings from the collection of Joel Montague exhibited in "Framing the sacred: Cambodian Buddhist painting" November 20th 2013-March 20th 2014, Insitute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Download or read book Preah Bot written by Vittorio Roveda and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These delightful, beautiful and sought-after paintings depict scenes from Buddha's life or the Jataka tale. With lavish illustrations throughout, the authors study both the religious meaning of the paintings as well as their artistic merit.
Download or read book Cambodian Buddhism written by Ian Harris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a booklength, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country from its inception to the present day, the book goes on to furnish insights into the distinctive nature of Cambodia's important yet overlooked manifestation of Theravada Buddhist tradition and to show how it reestablished itself following almost total annihilation during the Pol Pot period. Historical sections cover the dominant role of tantric Mahayana concepts and rituals under the last great king of Angkor, Jayavarman VII (1181–c. 1220); the rise of Theravada traditions after the collapse of the Angkorian civilization; the impact of foreign influences on the development of the nineteenth-century monastic order; and politicized Buddhism and the Buddhist contribution to an emerging sense of Khmer nationhood. The Buddhism practiced in Cambodia has much in common with parallel traditions in Thailand and Sri Lanka, yet there are also significant differences. The book concentrates on these and illustrates how a distinctly Cambodian Theravada developed by accommodating itself to premodern Khmer modes of thought. Following the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in 1970, Cambodia slid rapidly into disorder and violence. Later chapters chart the elimination of institutional Buddhism under the Khmer Rouge and its gradual reemergence after Pol Pot, the restoration of the monastic order's prerevolutionary institutional forms, and the emergence of contemporary Buddhist groupings.
Book Synopsis Trends in Khmer Art by : Jean Boisselier
Download or read book Trends in Khmer Art written by Jean Boisselier and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Professor Boisselier's original work. This monograph discusses twenty-four sculptures representative of Khmer art. Includes brief chapters on the history and religions of Cambodia as background for understanding the discussion of the statuary itself, as well as beautiful black-and-white reproductions and a glossary.
Author :Ashley Thompson Publisher :National University of Singapore Press ISBN 13 :9789813251496 Total Pages :288 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (514 download)
Book Synopsis Early Theravadin Cambodia by : Ashley Thompson
Download or read book Early Theravadin Cambodia written by Ashley Thompson and published by National University of Singapore Press. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial reference for historians of Southeast Asia and those with a serious interest in the Buddhism and Buddhist art of Southeast Asia. What explains the spread of Theravada Buddhism? And how is it entangled with the identity shifts that over the next four hundred years gave rise to the Buddhist state now called Cambodia? Early Theravadin Cambodia sheds light on one of the outstanding questions of Southeast Asian history: the nature and timing of major cultural and political shifts in the territory that was to become Cambodia, starting in the 13th century. This important collection challenges the conventional picture of Theravada as taking root in the void left by the collapse of Angkor and its Hindu-Buddhist power structure. Written by a diverse group of scholars from Cambodia, Thailand, the United States, France, Australia, and Japan, this volume is a sustained, collaborative discussion of evidence from art and archaeology, and how it relates to questions of Buddhist history, regional exchange networks, and ethnopolitical identities. Accessibly written and vividly illustrated, the book will be a crucial reference for historians of Southeast Asia and scholars of Buddhism.
Book Synopsis In Praise of Buddhist Art in Cambodia, Champa, Laos, Siam, and Borobudur by :
Download or read book In Praise of Buddhist Art in Cambodia, Champa, Laos, Siam, and Borobudur written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buddhism in a Dark Age by : Ian Harris
Download or read book Buddhism in a Dark Age written by Ian Harris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of the fate of Buddhism during the communist period in Cambodia puts a human face on a dark period in Cambodia’s history. It is the first sustained analysis of the widely held assumption that the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot had a centralized plan to liquidate the entire monastic order. Based on a thorough analysis of interview transcripts and a large body of contemporary manuscript material, it offers a nuanced view that attempts to move beyond the horrific monastic death toll and fully evaluate the damage to the Buddhist sangha under Democratic Kampuchea. Compelling evidence exists to suggest that Khmer Rouge leaders were determined to hunt down senior members of the pre-1975 ecclesiastical hierarchy, but other factors also worked against the Buddhist order. Buddhism in a Dark Age outlines a three-phase process in the Khmer Rouge treatment of Buddhism: bureaucratic interference and obstruction, explicit harassment, and finally the elimination of the obdurate and those close to the previous Lon Nol regime. The establishment of a separate revolutionary form of sangha administration constituted the bureaucratic phase. The harassment of monks, both individually and en masse, was partially due to the uprooting of the traditional monastic economy in which lay people were discouraged from feeding economically unproductive monks. Younger members of the order were disrobed and forced into marriage or military service. The final act in the tragedy of Buddhism under the Khmer Rouge was the execution of those monks and senior ecclesiastics who resisted. It was difficult for institutional Buddhism to survive the conditions encountered during the decade under study here. Prince Sihanouk’s overthrow in 1970 marked the end of Buddhism as the central axis around which all other aspects of Cambodian existence revolved and made sense. And under Pol Pot the lay population was strongly discouraged from providing its necessary material support. The book concludes with a discussion of the slow re-establishment and official supervision of the Buddhist order during the People’s Republic of Kampuchea period.
Book Synopsis Buddhism Illuminated by : San San May
Download or read book Buddhism Illuminated written by San San May and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Buddhist Art by : Charles F. Chicarelli
Download or read book Buddhist Art written by Charles F. Chicarelli and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 150 color photographs from temples, museums, historical sites, and private collections enhance this attractive survey of the Buddhist art of India, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. It presents the life story and teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha, founder of Buddhism, as shown in paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, and explores the major schools of Buddhism--Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Zen--and the styles and characteristics of the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, and other images seen in their art. Everyone interested in Buddhist art and its enduring significance will find this volume a useful reference for the study and appreciation of the various gestures, poses, and artistic elements seen in Buddhist art though the ages.
Download or read book Traces of Trauma written by Boreth Ly and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Boreth Ly explores the “traces” of this haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with trauma on such a vast scale. Ly maintains that the production of visual culture by contemporary Cambodian artists and writers—photographers, filmmakers, court dancers, and poets—embodies traces of trauma, scars leaving an indelible mark on the body and the psyche. Her book considers artists of different generations and family experiences: a Cambodian-American woman whose father sent her as a baby to the United States to be adopted; the Cambodian-French filmmaker, Rithy Panh, himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, whose film The Missing Picture was nominated for an Oscar in 2014; a young Cambodian artist born in 1988—part of the “post-memory” generation. The works discussed include a variety of materials and remnants from the historical past: the broken pieces of a shattered clay pot, the scarred landscape of bomb craters, the traditional symbolism of the checkered scarf called krama, as well as the absence of a visual archive. Boreth Ly’s poignant book explores obdurate traces that are fragmented and partial, like the acts of remembering and forgetting. Her interdisciplinary approach, combining art history, visual studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, religion, and philosophy, is particularly attuned to the diverse body of material discussed, including photographs, video installations, performance art, poetry, and mixed media. By analyzing these works through the lens of trauma, she shows how expressions of a national trauma can contribute to healing and the reclamation of national identity.
Book Synopsis The Influence of Indian Art on Cambodia and Java ... by : Alfred Foucher
Download or read book The Influence of Indian Art on Cambodia and Java ... written by Alfred Foucher and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pen, Ink and Watercolor Sketching 2 – Temples of Cambodia by : Shirish Deshpande
Download or read book Pen, Ink and Watercolor Sketching 2 – Temples of Cambodia written by Shirish Deshpande and published by Shirish Deshpande. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s re-create the lost world of the ancient kings through pen, ink, and watercolor sketching. Cambodia is a land of rich heritage, ancient mystique and tragic contemporary history. Nevertheless, as peace returned to Cambodia for the last two decades, the ancient temples in the city of Siem Reap found themselves back on the world’s tourist map. Siem Reap is home to many ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples. These temples are an example of some of the most breathtaking architecture and incredible artwork. I traveled to Siem Reap in 2019 to visit these temples and experience sketching them on-location. The trip proved to be an enriching and meditative experience for me. I also realized that drawing and painting the illustrations of these ancient temples was an equally delightful and challenging experience. In this book, you will learn to draw and paint 10 illustrations of various temples in Cambodia using pen, ink, and watercolor through step-by-step demonstrations. All the illustrations use the reference photographs that I clicked while visiting the temples. Every demonstration describes the thought process behind and description of every step. Wherever necessary, I have discussed compositional considerations and perspective, and the materials used. You will learn the art of pen, ink, and watercolor sketching via the following ten demonstrations. Scenes from three of the most famous temples of Cambodia are used for these demonstrations. Ta Phrom (also known as The Tomb Raider temple) – The Roots Ta Phrom – The Main Gate Ta Phrom – The Ruins Angkor Wat – The Stairs Angkor Wat – The Inner Ruins Angkor Wat – The Library Building Bayon Temple – The Entry Gate Bayon Temple – The Faces of the Kings Bayon Temple – The Buddha Statue Ta Phrom – Some More Roots For many wannabe artists, the main hurdle it to begin the initial line sketch and getting the perspective right. To get rid of these hurdles, the reference photographs, rough sketches, compositional sketches, and the final illustrations are given as free downloadable resources. You may use these resources to trace over the linework or use these references to give your unique spin to your artwork. The book will guide you about using these free resources to quickstart your drawing process. As a bonus, many sketches/paintings that I did on-location in those temples are also given. I have also shared some unique and interesting experiences I had while doing the on-location sketches. So, get ready to embark on an exciting and fulfilling journey of sketching with me.
Download or read book Light of Asia written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to examine the image of Buddha Sakyamuni as interpreted in the various cultura and historical contexts where Buddhism has flourished.
Book Synopsis Ancient Cambodian Sculpture by : Sherman E. Lee
Download or read book Ancient Cambodian Sculpture written by Sherman E. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thai and Cambodian Sculpture from the 6th to the 14th Centuries by : Wolfgang Felten
Download or read book Thai and Cambodian Sculpture from the 6th to the 14th Centuries written by Wolfgang Felten and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Read Buddhist Art by : Kurt Behrendt
Download or read book How to Read Buddhist Art written by Kurt Behrendt and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to inspire the devout and provide a focus for religious practice, Buddhist artworks stand at the center of a great religious tradition that swept across Asia during the first millennia. How to Read Buddhist Art assembles fifty-four masterpieces from The Met collection to explore how images of the Buddha crossed linguistic and cultural barriers, and how they took on different (yet remarkably consistent) characteristics in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, China, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Works highlighted in this rich, concise overview include reliquaries, images of the Buddha that attempt to capture his transcendence, diverse bodhisattvas who protect and help the devout on their personal path, and representations of important teachers. The book offers the essential iconographic frameworks needed to understand Buddhist art and practice, helping the reader to appreciate how artists gave form to subtle aspects of the teachings, especially in the sublime expression of the Buddha himself.
