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Author Chiu, Angela S., author

Title The Buddha in Lanna : art, lineage, power, and place in northern Thailand / Angela S. Chiu
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
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Contents Introduction -- Buddha images and devotees : lineages of people and places -- Buddha images and the monkhood : monastic political power beyond the cloister -- Buddha images and place : materializing the Buddha's agency in the landscape -- Buddha images and relics : form, place, and history -- Buddha images as objects of donation : intention, wishes, and economic value in inscriptions on the bases of images -- Buddha images as objects of transferrable power : the physical and social processes of copying images
Summary This work is an in-depth historical study of the Thai tradition of donation of that most iconic of Thai art objects, the Buddha image. Angela S. Chiu introduces stories from tamnan (chronicles), monastic histories and legends from the Lanna region centred in today's northern Thailand
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2017)
Subject Gautama Buddha -- Statues -- Thailand, Northern
SUBJECT Gautama Buddha fast
Subject Buddhist sculpture -- Thailand, Northern
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
ART -- Asian.
Buddhist sculpture
Statues
Northern Thailand
Form Electronic book
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