Buddhist Murals of Northeast Thailand: Reflections of the Isan Heartland North Thailand Combining biographical studies with critical

Combining biographical studies with critical philosophical and sociological analyses of Buddhadāsa’s reforms of Thai Buddhist teachings

If an observer asked today whether Thailand is becoming a “knowledge-based society”

this wide-ranging narrative takes us through prehistoric and protohistoric periods

He wrote more than twenty books

He became the principal of Myitkyina College in 1972 and of the Institute of Foreign Languages in 1980

Buddhist Murals of Northeast Thailand: Reflections of the Isan Heartland North Thailand Combining biographical studies with criticalBonnie Pacala Brereton and Somroay Yencheuy Paperback Books on mural painting in Thailand have tended to focus on works commissioned by royalty or other elites from the centers of power. This volume is the first to examine a vibrant sub school of painting from the rural heartland of the Northeastern Region, also known as Isan. The murals are distinct in that they are painted on the exterior of ordination halls and their compositions give a sense of