"Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study …
On history of Buddhist mural paintings and decorations of Burma and Thailand.
Part I. Transitions from late prehistory to early history -- Part II. The growing emergence of Indic material culture -- Part III. Early Buddhist practices, landscapes and artefacts -- Part IV. …
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…
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…
In The Buddha in the Jungle, real-life stories about 19th and early 20th century Buddhist monks in Thailand are ingeniously intermingled with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries. S…
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred tex…
Originally published in 1771 as the first account in a Western language of the period of the French Embassies to Siam, the reign of King Narai and Constant Phaulcon, and of the sacking of Ayuthaya …