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With its impressive range of primary sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Buddhism and Buddhist art history, Thai studies, and Southeast Asian religious studies.-- University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter This is the most comprehensive study available of the social, political, and historical lives of images of the Buddha in Northern Thailand. The author draws upon an impressive range of primary sources--including manuscripts of local chronicles, relic histories, and stone and bronze inscriptions--and thoroughly knows the secondary scholarship on regional history, art, and religion. What I particularly like about the book is that the author does not attempt to force actual Buddhist ritual, political, magical, economic, and narrative use of images into a preconceived idea of what a Buddhist ethics of materials should be. This is a rare approach and a refreshing one.--Justin Thomas McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter This one-of-a-kind book provides both primary and secondary research and translations of Buddhist chronicles from Burma, Sri Lanka, and Northern Thailand, with fascinating material on Buddhist texts, ritual practices, and historical figures and their utilization of religious icons as political tools. It will benefit scholars in Southeast Asian studies, Thai studies, Thai Buddhist studies, and Thai art, as well as those in South Asian Studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology, and sociology.--Pattaratorn Chirapravati, California State University, Sacramento University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter

This is the most comprehensive study available of the social, political, and historical lives of images of the Buddha in Northern Thailand. The author draws upon an impressive range of primary sources--including manuscripts of local chronicles, relic histories, and stone and bronze inscriptions--and thoroughly knows the secondary scholarship on regional history, art, and religion. What I particularly like about the book is that the author does not attempt to force actual Buddhist ritual, political, magical, economic, and narrative use of images into a preconceived idea of what a Buddhist ethics of materials should be. This is a rare approach and a refreshing one.--Justin Thomas McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter With its impressive range of primary sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Buddhism and Buddhist art history, Thai studies, and Southeast Asian religious studies.-- University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter This one-of-a-kind book provides both primary and secondary research and translations of Buddhist chronicles from Burma, Sri Lanka, and Northern Thailand, with fascinating material on Buddhist texts, ritual practices, and historical figures and their utilization of religious icons as political tools. It will benefit scholars in Southeast Asian studies, Thai studies, Thai Buddhist studies, and Thai art, as well as those in South Asian Studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology, and sociology.--Pattaratorn Chirapravati, California State University, Sacramento University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter

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Angela S. Chiu is an independent scholar, formerly a research associate in the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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