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Re-visioning Buddhist art in Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Piriya Krairiksh
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The Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, is to be congratulated for organising a splendid exhibition of Thai Buddhist art entitled ‘Enlightened ways: The many streams of Buddhist art in Thailand’, which ran from 30 November 2012 to 17 April 2013, and for publishing the exhibition catalogue as well as a separate monograph, Buddhist storytelling in Thailand and Laos, which elucidates the long cloth scroll depicting the story of Prince Vessantara on display at the exhibition.

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Review Article
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 113 - 118
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 2014 

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