Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings.

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Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings displays Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha's teachin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Alexandra
Otros Autores: Yanne, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: HK : Hong Kong University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Mural painting and decoration, Burmese.
Buddhist art > Burma.
Narrative painting > Burma.
Art bouddhique > Birmanie.
Peinture narrative > Birmanie.
ART > History > General.
Buddhist art.
Narrative painting.
Burma.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings displays Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha's teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his c.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:9789882204850
9882204856

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