Devotion
image, recitation, and celebration of the Vessantara Epic in Northeast Thailand
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Author
Contributions
- Lefferts, H. Leedom, Jr., author - Contributor
- Wernsdörfer, Martina, 1968- author - Contributor
- Universität Zürich. Völkerkundemuseum - Contributor
Publication
2017 - Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany
Language
English
Word Count
47,750 words, Guess
Page Count
191 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL44495775M
- ISBN-139783897905009
- ISBN-103897905000
- OCLC Control Number992172301
Classifications
- LCCN8193.A3 K35 2017
Alternate Titles
- Vessantara Epic
- Vessantara Jataka
Description
Devotion presents, for the very first time, a selection of six full-length Vessantara Jataka picture scrolls and explores a contemporary multimedia celebration of an ancient Buddhist text through in-depth essays. Provides the reader with an exciting journey into unknown stories and narrative structure. The Vessantara Jataka is the tale of Buddha's last life, before he was reborn as the historical Buddha 2,500 years ago. In this earlier existence as Prince Vessantara he demonstrated evidence of the highest virtue that constitutes an enlightened one, namely generosity. Vessantara gave away everything dear to him in the climactic scene of the story even his wife and children. In North-East Thailand the Vessantara tale is celebrated annually as Bun Phra Wet. Vessantara cloths form the visual framework for this festival; they are hand-painted scrolls, which can reach lengths of up to one hundred meters. This book accompanies an exhibition, to be held in the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, June 20, 2017 to April 4, 2018.
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