On history of Buddhist mural paintings and decorations of Burma and Thailand.
The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves…
Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work…
In his lavishly illustrated new study, Henry Ginsburg describes a wide range of Thai manuscripts and other documents in European and North American collections, discussing each in its religious and…
One of the best loved and most hallowed and historic Buddhist shrines in Sri Lanka, the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihatraya is a unique treasure of epic Buddhist art of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twen…
total 181 pages, English translations with color pictures Traditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form. Although there were no absolute abstract Chinese painting in its origi…
This book offers a systematic study of a preeminent site in the artistic and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia. With over five hundred caves, Powin Taung has for centuries attracted pilgrims and …
This book 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 Roug…