Relics: the heart of Buddhist veneration / Peter Skilling -- Cetiya and Thūpa: the textual sources / Lance Cousins -- The Buddhist remains of Passani and Bimaran and related relic deposits from…
The Book Comprehensively Studies Aspects Of Thai Political Life, Religion, Art And Literature Emphasising The Role Of Buddhism In Influencing The Thai Culture. It Analyses Buddhist Art Styles Perta…
The Book Comprehensively Studies Aspects Of Thai Political Life, Religion, Art And Literature Emphasising The Role Of Buddhism In Influencing The Thai Culture. It Analyses Buddhist Art Styles Perta…
Translated by Li Rongxi, this biographical text relates how King Asoka unified India for the first time in the third century BCE and, after his conversion, sent emissaries throughout his kingdom to…
Manuscripts and inscriptions, languages and letters --rnLanguage and writing in South-East Asia and in Sukhothai --rnPieces in the puzzle : Sanskrit literature in pre-modern Siam --rnThe place of S…
Numerous Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished in Southeast Asia from the 5th to the 9th century, yet until recently few concrete details were known about them. 'Lost Kingdoms' reveals newly disco…
The Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching across Central Asia to Europe, evokes exotic images of camel trains laden with bales of fine Chinese silk, spices, and perfume, of desert …
Introduction: Charnvit Kasetsiri’s “Yellow Brick Road” / Barbara Watson Andaya – Part I: Thai and Southeast Asian Studies – Part II: From Siam to Thailand – Part III: Siam and Indone…
The book is an encyclopaedia of the Sakyan history in which Sakyamuni Gautama Buddha was born. It traces the roots of the Sakyan clan in the perspective of history, ethnography, anthropology, archa…
Buddhism in Central Asia is a saga of peaceful pursuit by Buddhist scholars from Kashmir and Kabul to propagate the message of the Buddha. This vast region between the Tien-Shan and the Kunlun rang…
A dozen years ago, when American interest and academic investment in Southeast Asia were at their height, a remarkable number of students of the Philippines were enrolled at the University of Michi…
This engaging encyclopedia covers the religions and religious traditions of various Southeast Asian countries, including Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailan…
Originally published as: Historical dictionary of ancient Southeast Asia. 2007.rnIncludes bibliographical references (p. 451-495)
G. J. Younghusband (1859-1944) came from a family with deep roots in the Indian army and colonial service tradition. After school at Sandhurst, the young lieutenant was sent on what was no less tha…
This book contains information on all the Khmer edifices in the present-day Cambodian provinces that were formerly under Siamese control. They comprise Melou Prey, Sisophon, Battambang and Siem Rea…