The Emerald Buddha
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Author | : Ken Lawrence |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9780998427812 |
CHASING THE EMERALD BUDDHA is a new type of travel guide which follows the path of Southeast Asia's most sacred relic. Locations include bustling Bangkok, historic Chiang Mai, tropical South Thailand, the astonishing ruins of Angkor and laid-back Luang Prabang. The book also features over 500 color photographs and over a dozen detailed maps.
Author | : Elizabeth Singer Hunt |
Publisher | : Running Press Kids |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2017-07-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1602863601 |
For fans of the award-winning SECRET AGENT JACK STALWART comes a must-read new chapter book series! Now Jack teams up with his older brother, Max, to solve new international mysteries, using their special training as secret agents. Temporarily retired from the GPF-Global Protection Force-and on family vacation, Jack Stalwart and his older brother, Max, are motivated to act when a band of thieves takes the Emerald Buddha from the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Without the help of the GPF, they're on their own. They're also up against one of the smartest and wealthiest villains they've ever faced. Can Jack and Max find Thailand's most precious statue before it's too late?
Author | : Betty Cavanna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : 9780688320867 |
When the sacred Emerald Buddha is stolen from a Bangkok temple, a young girl and her father try to solve the mystery surrounding its disappearance.
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
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Author | : Noppadol Dharawanij |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9786164210462 |
Author | : Karen Schur Narula |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Chronicles the odyssey of Thailand's Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace in Bangkok, from its roots in India, to Sri Lanka, Burma, and beyond
Author | : Joseph Bushnell Ames |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : Carol Stratton |
Publisher | : Serindia Publications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781932476095 |
Author | : Vanessa R. Sasson |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824889525 |
Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewels—along with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deities—shape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of currency often used to make the Buddhist world go round: merit in exchange for wealth. Regardless of whether the Buddhist community has theoretically transcended the need for them or not, jewels—and the paradox they represent—are everywhere. Scholarship has often looked past this splendor, favoring the theory of renunciation instead, but in this volume, scholars from a wide range of disciplines consider the role jewels play in the Buddhist imaginary, putting them front and center for the first time. Following an introduction that relates the colorful story of the Emerald Buddha, one of the most famous jewels in the world, chapters explore the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions; Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha’s bejeweled status before and after renunciation; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue. The Newars of Nepal are the focus of a chapter that looks at their gemology and associations between gems and celestial deities. Contributors analyze the Fifth Dalai Lama’s reliquary, known as the “sole ornament of the world”; the transformation of relic jewels into precious substances and their connection to the Piprahwa stupa in Northern India and the Nanjing Porcelain Pagoda. Final chapters offer detailed studies of ritual engagement with the deity known as Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Avalokiteśvara and its role in the new Japanese lay Buddhist religious movement Shinnyo-en. Engaging and accessible, Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary will provide readers with an opportunity to look beyond a common misconception about Buddhism and bring its lived tradition into wider discussion.
Author | : Cornelius Coenraad Lamprecht |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2016-07-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781535067515 |
In the Royal Palace of Bangkok is one of the most revered Buddhist images, of the entire world. More than three million people visit that temple every year. It was the original master of most Buddhist images carved in later centuries around South East Asia. The Emerald Buddha has been a part of Bangkok for more than 360 years. Yet, behind the magnificent carved statue is a tale of human struggle, desire for power and veneration of the divine. This book is the folklore and actual history of that image. From the time it was sculptured in 43BCE, the amazing journeys through Asia and the strange incidents around this image. From India to the fabled Land of Gold - Suvarnabhumi. There were disasters at sea, there were wars and the desires of Kings. Those that desired it, and never even had the honour to see it. Through the ages this image of the Emerald Buddha did indeed had a mind-set of its own. "The truth is stranger than Fiction"