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Buddhist Storytelling in Thailand and Laos: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll and the Asian Civilisations Museum

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ISBN-10:

9810724780

ISBN-13:

9789810724788

Author(s): Tossa, Wajuppa; Cate, Sandra
Edition: Illustrated
Released: Oct 31, 2013
Publisher: Asian Civilisations Museum
Format: Hardcover, 1163 pages
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This richly illustrated, full-colour volume offers an innovative study of the long, painted scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Laos that depictthe Prince Vessantara Buddhist birth story. A 31-metre scroll in the Asian Civilisations Museum provides the focus for this popular narrative. The scroll is reproduced in its entirety, with comparative illustrations from other scrolls. The authors analyze these scrolls in the context of the Bun Phra Wet – the Thai-Lao and Lao ceremony in which they are used – and consider the complex interplay of text, art, ritual, and belief which occur in these performances.

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