The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-10435-8
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 237 Seiten, Gewicht: 1436 g

Reihe: Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology

This volume deals with a unique group of stone sculptures, representations of the Buddha's Wheel of the Law, found in present-day Thailand that date from about the seventh-eighth centuries CE.
The book places these sculptures in their historical, religious, and art historical contexts to determine what they meant to the culture (called Dvāravatī) that produced them. Thus, other art historical material associated with the Wheels, including stone deer, Buddha images, and stupas, are discussed.
Of greatest importance is how these sculptures relate to both the art in Cambodia and that in India, and to determine what these relationships can tell us about the process (called Indianization) by which Indian culture, religion, and art were adapted in Southeast Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Über Autor(innen)

Robert L. Brown, Ph.D. (1981) in Indian Art History, University of California, is Associate Professor of Indian and Southeast Asian Art History at the University of California in Los Angeles. He has published many articles on various aspects of Indian and Southeast Asian Art.