Download or read book Making Merit Making Art written by Sandra Cate and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their work, both celebrated and controversial, depicts stories from the Buddha's lives in otherworldly landscapes punctuated with sly references to this-worldly politics and popular culture. Schooled in international art trends, the artists reverse an Orientalist narrative of the Asian Other, telling their own stories to diverse audiences and subsuming Western spaces into a Buddhist worldview."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Long distance Merit making written by Sandra Louise Cate and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Fields of Merit written by Monica Lindberg Falk and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthropological study addresses religion and gender relations through the lens of the lives, actions and role in Thai society of an order of Buddhist nuns (mae chii). It presents a unique ethnography of these Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society. The study also deals with the nuns' agency in creating religious space and authority for women. In addition, it raises questions about how the position of Thai Buddhist nuns outside the Buddhist sanhga affects their religious legitimacy and describes recent moves to restore a Theravada order of female monks." -- BACK COVER.
Download or read book Thailand s International Meditation Centers written by Brooke Schedneck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary practices within the new institution of international meditation centers in Thailand. It discusses the development of the lay vipassana meditation movement in Thailand and relates Thai Buddhism to contemporary processes of commodification and globalisation. Through an examination of how meditation centers are promoted internationally, the author considers how Thai Buddhism is translated for and embodied within international tourists who participate in meditation retreats in Thailand. Shedding new light on the decontextualization of religious practices, and raising new questions concerning tourism and religion, this book focuses on the nature of cultural exchange, spiritual tourism, and religious choice in modernity. With an aim of reframing questions of religious modernity, each chapter offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of spiritual seeking in Thailand. Offering an analysis of why meditation practices appeal to non-Buddhists, this book contends that religions do not travel as whole entities but instead that partial elements resonate with different cultures, and are appropriated over time.
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Download or read book Horvath s Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Art in Thailand written by Apinan Poshyananda and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special attention is given in the early chapters to King Chulalongkorn, whose patronage played a major role in disseminating Western art in Bangkok, and to the Italian art teacher, Silpa Bhirasri, a pivotal figure in the institutional development of modern art in Thailand in the 1930s and 1940s.
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Living Identities of Thailand s Famous Traveling Buddha Icons and Their Legitimization of a King s Merit based Right to Rule written by Cecilia J.. Zmudzinski and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thai Buddhism, merit is the process of accumulating positive karma, and it is collected in a variety of ways. This ranges from simple actions such as being kind and generous in daily life all the way to more public displays of merit through the donation or possession of important Buddhist art works or artifacts. Acts of merit making are done to benefit the community as a whole and support the continued practice of Buddhism on a personal and group level. The act of making merit, or thambam, is performative in many ways. At its basis, it comes from a place of positive, heartfelt intentions, but on the other hand, the act of making merit is often a public display of wealth and status. Collecting merit can lead to positive luck and outcomes in the current life, and in future lives. For kings especially, the process of making merit was very important for the goal of maintaining the authority. Rulers accumulate a lot of wealth throughout their reigns, and it is easy for a person in a position of wealth to become greedy and cling to their money. The Four Noble Truths teach that suffering in life is caused by physical attachments, and only by letting go of those feeling can a person’s suffering end. One way of detaching from physical wealth is to donate to the construction of merit building projects, like new temples or different art works that go into them. If you have the accumulated merit to be blessed with a wealthy lifestyle, in order to continue gaining merit, you must be generous and help maintain the sites where the community goes to worship and gain merit by venerating the Buddha. In terms of the merit related to the possession of a sacred buddha, the statue acts as a divine claim to righteous and universal kingship. In Thailand’s early history, the dynasties formed in different areas of the country were short lived and often contested if the leader lacked symbols of power to legitimize their right to rule. In order to succeed as a ruler, it was necessary for the king to claim to be a cakkavatti or dharmaraja, which were highly respected positions earned through the accumulation of good merit. If they were able to secure sacred Buddhist images or statues that were imbued with power and virtue, this guaranteed legitimacy of their claims to possess high levels of merit. As long as their merit remained, the ruler would be able to hold onto the sacred objects and continue to justify their right to rule.
Download or read book Art for a Modern India 1947 1980 written by Rebecca M. Brown and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how prominent Indian visual artists created modern art for the postcolonial nation in the years between India's independence in 1947 and 1980.
Download or read book Buddhist Murals of Northeast Thailand written by Bonnie Pacala Brereton and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books on mural painting in Thailand have tended to focus on works commissioned by royalty or other elites from the centers of power. This volume is the first to examine a vibrant sub-school of painting from the rural heartland of the Northeastern Region, also known as Isan. It is a multifaceted and empathetic study of these lovely and lively paintings, and will appeal to anyone interested in the Mekong Region as well as to scholars of art history, Buddhism, and anthropology in Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Thai Transience written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thai Transience showcases paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos by leading Thai artists. Inspiration behind these pieces are drawn from traditional artefacts and art objects from local museums and religious sites within Thailand, showing how Thai contemporary artists continue to create new expressions responding to their heritage and faith. This exhibition catalogue offers a unique perspective of Thai art-making that traverses the categories of traditional, modern and contemporary art, from both emerging and senior Thai contemporary artists such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Bussaraporn Thongchai, Chokchai Tukpoe, Chusak Srikwan, Dow Wasiksiri, Imhathai Suwatthanasilp, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Panya Vijinthanasarn, Phatyos Buddhacharoen, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Thawan Duchanee and Yuree Kensaku. A suitable publication for both researchers and art lovers, Thai Transcience is also an ideal reference tool for exploring the art of Southeast Asia."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Book written by Amaranth Borsuk and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive. Despite nostalgic paeans to the codex and its printed pages, Borsuk reminds us, the term “book” commonly refers to both medium and content. And the medium has proved to be malleable. Rather than pinning our notion of the book to a single form, Borsuk argues, we should remember its long history of transformation. Considering the book as object, content, idea, and interface, she shows that the physical form of the book has always been the site of experimentation and play. Rather than creating a false dichotomy between print and digital media, we should appreciate their continuities.
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