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The Buddhist monastery : a cross-cultural survey

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The Buddhist monastery : a cross-cultural survey / edited by Pierre Pichard and François Lagirarde.
Publication
Paris : École française d'extrême-orient, 2003.
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Additional Authors
  • Pichard, Pierre.
  • Lagirarde, F. (François)
  • Sūn Manutsayawitthayā Sirinthō̜n (Thailand)
Description
442 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.
Summary
This volume is a comparative survey of the Buddhist monastery throughout Asia. It includes field surveys, historical aspects and the compilation of bibliographies.
Series Statement
Études thématiques, 1269-8067 ; 12
Uniform Title
Études thématiques ; 12.
Subject
  • Buddhist monasteries > Congresses
  • Buddhist architecture > Congresses
  • Monastères bouddhiques
  • Buddhist architecture
  • Buddhist monasteries
  • Buddhismus
  • Kloster
  • Monasteries
  • Monasticism
  • Asia
  • Asian buddhist monasteries
Genre/Form
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Congresses (form)
Note
  • Based on presentations at a workshop at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Nov. 8-10, 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Indian Buddhist monasteries / Pierre Pichard -- The Buddhist monastic architectural tradition of Sri Lanka / Ashley de Vos -- Ancient Burmese monasteries / Pierre Pichard -- The monastic unity: a contemporary Burmese artefact? / François Robinne -- The Thai monastery / Pierre Pichard -- Monastic architecture in Northeastern Thailand / Thada Sutthitham -- Isan sims: ordination halls in Northeast Thailand / Wiroj Srisuro -- Devotional diversification in Thai monasteries: the worship of the Fat Monk / François Lagirarde -- A new phenomenon in thai monasteries: the stūpa-museum / Louis Gabaude -- The earliest Lao Buddhist monasteries according to philological and epigraphic sources / Michel Lorillard -- Yaśovarman's āśrama in Angkor / Christopher Pottier -- About Khmer monasteries: organization and symbolism / Olivier de Bernon -- Hiraṇyavarṇa Mahāvihāra: a unique Newar Buddhist monastery / Min Bahadur Shakya -- The monasteries in Dolpo, North-West Nepal. From the Monastery to the Village Temple: a historical perspective / Corneille Jest -- Dzongs and Gompas in Bhutan / Karma Wangchuk -- Buddhist monasteries in Tibet / Françoise Pommaret -- The physical Buddhist monastery in China / Isabelle Charleux and Vincent Goossaert -- Buddhist monasteries in Southern Mongolia (China) / Isabelle Charleux -- Buddhist monasteries in Korea / Dong-Uk Kim -- The formation and evolution of Buddhist monasteries in Japan / Hiraoka Jokaī.
ISBN
  • 2855396263
  • 9782855396262
LCCN
2006382480
OCLC
  • ocm55060521
  • 55060521
  • SCSB-9546249
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries