Initial Findings on Wat Suthat: Presence, Power, and Merit-Making in the Vihara Murals and Inscriptions

This article examines the vihara mural of the Bangkok monastery Wat Suthat. Unlike most scholarship on Thai monastic murals and Buddhist murals in Southeast Asia which focus mainly on the content of the murals, this article focuses on the religious motivation for creating murals and examines the pro...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Luke (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Religion compass
Year: 2010, Volume: 4, Issue: 10, Pages: 588-605
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