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Buddhism Illuminated

Manuscript Art in Southeast Asia

By (author) Jana Igunma, San San May
Format: Hardback
Publisher: British Library Publishing, London, United Kingdom
Published: 24th May 2018
Dimensions: w 222mm h 286mm d 31mm
Weight: 1655g
ISBN-10: 0712352066
ISBN-13: 9780712352062
Barcode No: 9780712352062
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Synopsis
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 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 manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never been photographed before.

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