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100			_aRoveda, Vittorio, _950538
245	1	0	_aIn the shadow of Rama : murals of the Ramayana in mainland Southeast Asia
260			_aBangkok _bRiver Books _c2015
300			_a252p.
505			_aCONTENTS AKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6 INTRODUCTION 7 PART 1. THAILAND 10 Ramayana painting in Thailand 13 Murals of the Emerald Buddha cloister 15 Buddhaisawan cabinets 42 Wat Suthat triptychs 45 Wat Pho (Chetuphon) scripture house and ubosot doors 52 Wat Ratburana (Phisanulok) 60 Thai gilt lacquered cabinets 69 Thai Shadow leather-cut figures 73 PART 2. CAMBODIA 80 Ramayanic painting in Cambodia 83 The Murals of Wat Bo 83 Dating the painting 83 Restoration of the Murals 84 Textual Sources for the Paintings 84 Wat Bo: Description of the murals 86 West wall, upper register 88 West wall, middle register 90 West wall, lower register 94 North wall, upper register 99 North wall, middle register 102 North wall, lower register 107 East wall, upper register 113 South wall, upper register 116 South wall, middle register 122 East wall, middle register 128 East wall, lower register 133 South wall, lower register 136 Plaster Ramayana figures at Wat Bo 144 Comments on the mural paintings 144 The Wat Bo murals and Buddhism 145 Wat Bo cut leather skins - Sbek Thorn 149 Other visual Ramayanic narratives in Cambodia 155 Angkor Wat North (Siem Reap) 155 Wat Bo Lanka (Siem Reap) 156 Wat Nokor (Kampong Cham) 157 Wat Phnom Krom (Siem Reap) 159 Wat Bo Krom (Siem Reap) 159 Wat Kdol (Battambang) 160 Wat Ksach Puoy (Battambang) 162 Wat Damrei Sor (Battambang) 163 Painted wooden planks at the Phnom Penh National Museum 164 The Silvet Pagoda: key murals 165 Comments on the Silver Pagoda and its murals 173 Cambodian iconography at the turn of the 20th century 174 Conclusions 174 PART 3. LAOS 177 Ramayana painting in Laos 179 Phra Lak Phra Lam (Ban Naxon) 179 Phra Lak Phra Lam (Wat Kang Tha) 185 Pbmmachak version (Moung Singh) 188 Phra Lak Phra Lam from Luang Prabang 189 Gvay Dvorabhi from Luang Prabang 190 Ramajataka 193 Dasharathajataka 193 The murals of Wat Oup Muong murals 194 The friezes of Wat Mai frieze 194 The murals of Wat Pa Khe 199 The wood panels of Wat Xieng Thong (Luang Prabang) 204 PART 4. BURMA 211 Ramayana painting in Burma 213 Literary sources 213 Payagyi Pagoda tablets 21 8 APPENDICES 220 I. Khmer Ramayanic Texts and Images The Ramayana 220 The Sbek Thorn narrative 220 The TraiBbet 222 The Poem of Angkor or LAV 224 The Reamker 226 The narrative of the Reamker I 227 The Ramakerti of the Oknha Veang Thiounn (OVT) 230 8. The Reamker of Mi Chak (Bizot s RMC) of Ta Krut and of Ta Soy 231 Comments on Cambodian recensions of Rama's story 234 II. Inscriptions on the Wat Bo murals and the search for An ur-story 237 CONCLUSION 245 BIBLIOGRAPHY 246 PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS 248 INDEX 249
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