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Buddhism Illuminated : Manuscript Art from Southeast Asia

Author :  San San May and Jana Igunma

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Country
United Kingdom
Publisher
The British Library, London
ISBN 9780712352062
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2018
Bib. Info 272p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Product Weight 1700 gms.
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Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centres 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. This stunning new book illustrates over 100 examples of Buddhist art in the Librarys 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 manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never been photographed before.

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