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|a Green, Alexandra
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|a Buddhist visual cultures, rhetoric, and narrative in late Burmese wall paintings
|h Elektronische Ressource
|c Alexandra Green
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|a Hong Kong
|b Hong Kong University Press
|c 2019, 2019
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|a 1 online resource
|b illustrations (colour), map (black and white)
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index
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|a Buddhist art / Burma
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|a Narrative painting / Burma
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|a Art and society / Burma / History
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|a Art and Design / ukslc
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|a The arts: general issues / thema
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|a Oxford University Press
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|a Hong Kong scholarship online / Hong Kong scholarship online
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|a Previously issued in print: 2018
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|a 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390885.001.0001
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|u http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390885.001.0001?nosfx=y
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|a Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of colour 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 community, with the aim of transforming the devotees' current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged
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