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Buddhist Storytelling in Thailand and Laos: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll at the Asian

Buddhist Storytelling in Thailand and Laos: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll at the Asian

Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate, with Wajuppa Tossa

Format: Print Book

ISBN: 9789810724788

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This richly illustrated, full-colour volume offers an innovative study of the long, painted scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Laos that depictthe Prince Vessantara Buddhist birth story. A 31-metre scroll in the Asian Civilisations Museum provides the focus for this popular narrative. The scroll is reproduced in its entirety, with comparative illustrations from other scrolls. The authors analyze these scrolls in the context of the Bun Phra Wet – the Thai-Lao and Lao ceremony in which they are used – and consider the complex interplay of text, art, ritual, and belief which occur in these performances.

Language: :English
Number of Pages: :164
Format: :HB
Imprint: :(ACM) Asian Civilisations Museum
Publication Date :2012




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