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Buddhist storytelling in Thailand and Laos : the Vessantara Jataka scroll at the Asian Civilisations Museum

Author(s): Café, Sandra | Lefferts, Leedom

Buddhist storytelling in Thailand and Laos : the Vessantara Jataka scroll at the Asian Civilisations Museum
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Buddhist storytelling in Thailand and Laos : the Vessantara Jataka scroll at the Asian Civilisations Museum
Author(s)
Lefferts, Leedom
Café, Sandra
Publisher
Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, 2012
Collation
xv, 163 p. : col. ill.
31 cm.
Summary
This richly illustrated, full-colour volume offers an innovative study of the long, painted scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Laos that depict the 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.
ISBN
9789810724788
Dewey Class
294.38232
Contents
Foreword / Lee Chor Lin -- Introductory Note / Steven Collins -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Sopha Pangchat's scroll at the Asian Civilisations Museum -- Scrolls, festivals, performances -- Artists tell the story -- The writing on the scroll -- Notes on the artist and the scroll in Singapore -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Language
English
Subject
Buddhism -- Sacred books -- Illustrations.
Buddhist stories, Thai -- Pictorial works.
BRN
1361
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