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Published by White Lotus, Bangkok, 2007
ISBN 10: 9744801271ISBN 13: 9789744801272
Book First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: New. First Edition. A systematic study of a preeminent site in the artistic and cultural heritage of South East Asia. With over 500 caves, Powin Taung has for centuries attracted pilgrims and today houses eleven monasteries providing a home for about a hundred monks, novices and nuns. The caves, dug into a sandstone formation, are decorated with murals of the 28 Buddhas. of the Life of Gotama (the historical Buddha) and of the Jatakas (the narratives of his previous lives). Only 29 caves (regarded as the most important at the site) and one temple have captioned murals dating from the Nyaungyan and early Konbaung periods (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). This volume publishes, for the first time, the complete original Burmese texts of these captioned murals, laid out in registers, and their English translation. With its footnotes and appendices, this book is a tool for Buddhologists, historians and art historians, linguists, archaeologists and enlightened amateurs, as well as for guides. It makes a major contribution to the dissemination of the Burmese Buddhist cultural and literary heritage. There is a floor plan and plans of the walls with murals, for each cave. lxxii, 451 pp., 56 colour and over 340 b&w illustrations, bibliography, glossary. *** PLEASE NOTE - THIS VOLUME IS HEAVY AND MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. *** Size: 30 x 21 cm.
Published by White Lotus Press, Bangkok, 2007
ISBN 10: 9744801271ISBN 13: 9789744801272
Seller: SEATE BOOKS, APO, AP, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. book offers a systematic study of a preeminent site in the artistic and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia. With over five hundred caves, Powin Taung has for centuries attracted pilgrims and today houses eleven monasteries providing a home for about a hundred monks, novices and nuns. The caves, dug into a sandstone formation, are decorated with murals of the twenty-eight Buddhas. They depict the life of Gotama (the historical Buddha) and the Jatakas (the narratives of his previous lives). Only twenty-nine caves (regarded as the most important at the site) and one temple have captioned murals dating from the Nyaungyan and early Konbaung periods (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries). This volume publishes, for the first time, the complete original Burmese texts of these captioned murals, laid out in registers, and their English translation. With its footnotes and appendices, this book is a tool for Buddhologists, historians and art historians, linguists, archaeologists and enlightened amateurs, as well as for guides. It makes a major contribution to the dissemination of the Burmese Buddhist cultural and literary heritage. This systematic work has fifty-six color pages, and altogether four hundred photographs. For each cave it gives a floor plan and plans of the walls with murals. Book.
Published by White Lotus Press, Thailand, 2008
ISBN 10: 9744801271ISBN 13: 9789744801272
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good, ex-library copy of the first softcover edition of this increasingly hard-to-find title. Save for the customary library treatments to the base of the spine, the endpapers, and the stamped page edges of the volume, the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. A sharp copy. [Please note: Due to the size and weight of the volume extra shipping may be required depending on the destination and speed of delivery requested. Quotations gladly provided.].