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2015 Asian Studies Development Program Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions and Transformations

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Buddhist Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 9:00 a.m. – Noon

Paul A. Lavy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History University of Hawaii at Manoa

Office: Art 219 Office Phone: (808) 956-5259 E-mail: [email protected]

Assigned Reading for Session

Denise Patry Leidy, “Southeast Asia: Diffusion and Divergence” (chapter 8), in The Art of

Buddhism: An Introduction to Its History and Meaning (Boston: Shambhala, 2009), pp. 162-187.

John Miksic, “Architecture and Symbolism” (part II), in Borobudur: Golden Tales of the

Buddhas (Hong Kong: Periplus, 1990), pp. 36-59.

Recommended for Further Reading I. General and Surveys

Brown, Robert L. “Bodhgaya and South-East Asia.” In Bodhgaya, the Site of Enlightenment, ed. Janice Leoshko. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988, pp. 101-124.

______. Carrying Buddhism: The Role of Metal Icons in the Spread and Development of Buddhism. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014.

Chutiwongs, Nandana. The Iconography of Avalokiteśvara in Mainland South East Asia. New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2002.

Girard-Geslan, Maud et al. Art of Southeast Asia. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Guy, John. Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.

Lall, Vikram. The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam (Architecture of the Buddhist World). Abbeville Press, 2014.

Skilling, Peter. “The Advent of Theravāda Buddhism to Mainland South-east Asia.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies vol. 20, no. 1 (Summer 1997): pp. 93-107.


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______. “Traces of the Dharma: Preliminary Reports on Some ye dhammā and ye dharmā inscriptions from Mainland South-East Asia.” Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient vol. 90-91 (2003): pp. 273-287.

______. “‘Buddhist Sealings’: Reflections on Terminology, Motivation, Donors’ Status, School-Affiliation, and Print-Technology.” In South Asian Archaeology 2001 vol. 2, Historical Archaeology and Art History, eds. Catherine Jarrige & Vincent Lefèvre. Paris: Éditions recherches sur les civilisations, 2005, pp. 677-685.

______. “Buddhist Sealings in Thailand and Southeast Asia: Iconography, Function, and Ritual Context.” In Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past: Monument, Image and Text vol. 2, eds. Elisabeth A. Bacus, Ian C. Glover and Peter D. Sharrock. Singapore: Press, 2008: pp. 248-262.

Woodward, Hiram. “A Review Article: Esoteric Buddhism in Southeast Asia in the Light of Recent Scholarship.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 35, 2 (June 2004): pp. 329-354.

II. Cambodia Baptiste, Pierre and Thierry Zéphir. L’art khmer dans les collections du Musée Guimet. Paris:

Réunion des musées nationaux, 2008. Clark, Joyce, ed. Bayon: New Perspectives. Bangkok: River Books, 2007. Cort, Louise Allison and Paul Jett, eds. Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of

Cambodia. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, 2010. Harris, Ian. Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press,

2005. Jacques, Claude and Philippe Lafond. The Khmer Empire: Cities and Sanctuaries, Fifth to

Thirteenth Centuries. Bangkok: River Books, 2007.

Jessup, Helen Ibbitson and Thierry Zephir, eds. Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997.

Sharrock, Peter D. “Hevajra at Bantéay Chmàr.” The Journal of the Walters Art Museum (A Curator’s Choice: Essays in Honor of Hiram W. Woodward, Jr.) 64/65 (2006-7): pp. 49-64.

______. “The Mystery of the Bayon Face Towers.” In Bayon, New Perspectives, ed. Joyce Clark. Bangkok: River Books, 2007: pp. 230-81.

______. “Garuḍa, Vajrapāṇi and religious change in Jayavarman VII’s Angkor.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, 1 (February 2009): pp. 111-151.


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______. “Kīrtipaṇḍita and the Tantras in 10th century Cambodia.” Udaya 10 (2009): pp. 203-37.

______. “Serpents and Buddhas.” In Connecting Empires and States: Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, eds. Lin Tjoa-Bonatz, Andreas Reinecke and Dominik Bonatz. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, pp. 118-126.

______. “The Tantric Roots of the Buddhist Pantheon of Jayavarman VII.” In Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, vol. 2 eds Marijke J. Klokke & Véronique Degroot. Singapore: NUS Press, 2013, pp. 41-55.

______. “The Yoginis of the Bayon” (ch. 10). In 'Yoginī' in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. István Keul. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 117-129.

______, ed. Banteay Chhmar: Garrison Temple of the Khmer Empire. Bangkok: River Books, 2015.

Thompson, Ashley. “Changing Perspectives: Cambodia after Angkor.” In Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997, pp. 22-32.

Woodward, Hiram. “The Karandavyuha Sutra and Buddhist Art in 10th-Century Cambodia.” In Buddhist Art: Form and Meaning, ed. Pratapaditya Pal (Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2007), pp. 70-83.

III. Indonesia Bernet Kempers, A.J. “The bronzes of Nalanda and Hindu-Javanese art.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-,

Land- en Volkenkunde 90 (1933): pp. 1-110. Brown, Robert L. “Place in the Sacred Biography at Borobudur.” In Pilgrims, Patrons, and

Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions, eds. Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003, pp. 249-263.

Fontein, Jan. The Sculpture of Indonesia. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990. ______. Entering the Dharmadhatu: A Study of the Gandavyuha Reliefs of Borobudur. Leiden:

Brill, 2012. Gifford, Julie. Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture: The Visual Rhetoric of Borobudur.

Routledge, 2014.


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Griffiths, Arlo. “Written Traces of the Buddhist Past: Mantras and Dhāraṇīs in Indonesian Inscriptions,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77, 1 (2014): pp. 137-194.

Huntington, Susan L. “Some Connections between Metal Images of Northeast India and Java,”

in Ancient Indonesian Sculpture. M.J. Klokke and P. Lunsingh Scheurleer, eds. (Leiden: KITLV, 1994), pp. 57-75.

Kieven, Lydia. Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs: A New Look at the

Religious Function of East Javanese Temples, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Kinney, Ann R. with Marijke J. Klokke and Lydia Kieven. Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The

Temple Art of East Java. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Miksic, John. “The Buddhist-Hindu Divide in Premodern Southeast Asia.” Nalanda-Sriwijaya

Centre Working Paper Series no. 1 (September 2010), pp. 1-37. Miksic, John et al. Borobudur: Majestic, Mysterious, Magnificent. Yogyakarta, Indonesia:

Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur, Prambanan & Ratu Boko, 2010. O'Brien, Kate, trans. Sutasoma: the ancient tale of a Buddha-Prince from 14th century Java by

the poet Mpu Tantular. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2008. Reichle, Natasha. Violence and Serenity: Late Buddhist Sculpture from Indonesia. University of

Hawaii Press, 2007. IV. Laos Giteau, Madeleine. Art et archéologie du Laos. Paris: Picard, 2001. Gosling, Betty. Old Luang Prabang. Oxford University Press, 1996. Heywood, Denise. Ancient Luang Prabang. Bangkok: River Books, 2005. Holt, John Clifford. Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture. Honolulu:

University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2009. V. Myanmar (Burma) Bautze-Picron, Claudine. The Buddhist Murals of Pagan: Timeless Vistas of the Cosmos.

Trumbull, CT: Weatherhill, 2003. Fraser-Lu, Sylvia and Donald M. Stadtner, eds. Buddhist Art of Myanmar. New York: Asia

Society, 2015.


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Moore, Elizabeth H. Early Landscapes of Myanmar. Bangkok: River Books, 2007. Moore, Elizabeth, Hansjörg Mayer, and U-Win Pe. Shwedagon: Golden Pagoda of Myanmar.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. Schober, Juliane. “In the Presence of the Buddha: Ritual Veneration of the Burmese Mahamuni

Image.” In Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, ed. Juliane Schober (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), pp. 259-288.

Stadtner, Donald M. The Art of Burma: New Studies. Mumbai: Marg, 1999. ______. Sacred Sites of Burma. Bangkok: River Books, 2010. ______. Ancient Pagan: Buddhist Plain of Merit, 2nd ed. Bangkok: River Books, 2013. Stargardt, Janice. Tracing Thought through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early

Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000.

Strachan, Paul. Imperial Pagan: Art and Architecture of Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii

Press, 1990. VI. Thailand Baptiste, Pierre and Thierry Zéphir, eds. Dvāravatī: aux sources du bouddhisme en Thaïlande.

Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Musée Guimet, 2009. Boisselier, Jean. The Heritage of Thai Sculpture. New York: Weatherhill, 1975. ______. Thai Painting. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1976. Brown, Robert L. “God on Earth: The Walking Buddha in the Art of South and Southeast Asia,”

Artibus Asiae 50, 1/2 (1990): pp. 73-107. Chirapravati, Pattaratorn. Votive Tablets in Thailand: Origin, Styles, and Uses. Kuala Lumpur:

Oxford University Press, 1997. ______. “From Text to Image: Copying as Buddhist Practice in Late Fourteenth Century

Sukhothai” (chapter 11). In Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art, ed. Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown. London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 172-188.

Chutiwongs, Nandana and Denise Patry Leidy. Buddha of the Future: An Early Maitreya from

Thailand. New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1994.


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Gosling, Betty. Sukhothai: its History, Culture, and Art. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991.

______. Origins of Thai Art. Trumbull, CT: Weatherhill, 2004. Krairiksh, Piriya. Roots of Thai Art. Bangkok: River Books, 2012. Leksukhum, Santi. Temples of Gold: Seven Centuries of Thai Buddhist Paintings. New York:

George Braziller, 2000. McGill, Forrest, ed. The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800. San

Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2005. ________, ed. Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950. San Francisco: Asian Art

Museum, 2009. Moore, Elizabeth, Philip Stott, and Suriyavudh Sukhasvasti. Ancient Capitals of Thailand.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Revire, Nicolas and Stephen A. Murphy, eds. Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology, eds.

Bangkok: River Books, 2014. Reynolds, Frank E. “The Holy Emerald Jewel: Some Aspects of Buddhist Symbolism and

Political Legitimation in Thailand and Laos.” In Religion and Legitimation of Power in Thailand Laos, and Burma, ed. Bardwell Smith. Chambersburg, PA: ANIMA Books, 1978, pp. 175-193.

Skilling, Peter et al. Past Lives of the Buddha: Wat Si Chum: Art, Architecture, and Inscriptions.

Bangkok: River Books, 2008. Stratton, Carol. Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004. Stratton, Carol and Miriam McNair Scott. The Art of Sukhothai: Thailand's Golden Age, from the

mid-thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth centuries. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1981. Tambiah, Stanley J. “Famous Buddha Images and the Legitimation of Kings: The case of the

Sinhala Buddha (Phra Sihing) in Thailand.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 4 (Autumn 1982): pp. 5-19.

Van Beek. Steve and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni. The Arts of Thailand. Periplus, 1999. Woodward, Hiram. The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand: The Alexander B. Griswold Collection,

the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1997. ______. The Art and Architecture of Thailand. Leiden: Brill, 2003.


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VII. Vietnam Baptiste, Pierre and Thierry Zéphir (eds.). Trésors d’art du Vietnam: la sculpture du Champa Ve-

XVe siècles. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Musée Guimet, 2005. Green, Philip Scott Ellis. “The Many Faces of Lokeśvara: Tantric Connections in Cambodia and

Campā between the Tenth and Thirteenth Centuries.” History of Religions 54, 1 (August 2014), pp. 69-93.

Guillon, Emmanuel. Hindu-Buddhist Art of Vietnam: Treasures from Champa. Trumbull, CT:

Weatherhill, 2001. Nguyen-Long, Kerry. Arts of Viet Nam, 1009-1945. Hanoi: The Gioi Publishers, 2013. Schweyer, Anne-Valerie. Ancient Vietnam: History and Archaeology. Bangkok: River Books,

2012. Tingley, Nancy, ed. Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea. New York: Asia

Society, 2009.

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