Book Number: 21 481

Karow, Otto

BURMESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE - The Johan Möger Collection

Offers the reader an admirable survey and description of a sacred art that is still too little studied, the rich Burmese tradition. Of particular importance in this collection are the pieces forged in the Shan States depicting various incidents in the life of the Buddha, as well as the many pieces representing the Buddha in royal attire, herein designated the “Jambupati” type.

Whether the artifacts displayed are of narrative scenes, single figures, votive stupas or house temples, there is in this collection the full range of craftsmanship, expressed in various “gradients of quality”, and Burmese iconographic ideals.

(Bangkok 1991) ISBN 974-8495-52-3

164 pp., 132 pp. color illus., 200 x 300 mm

47.50 US-Dollar

Burma:

• VISIONS OF SHWEDAGON

• PAGAN, THE ORIGINS OF MODERN BURMA

• IRRIGATION IN THE HEARTLAND OF BURMA: FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRE-COLONIAL BURMESE STATE

• GOLDEN TRIANGLE FRONTIER AND WILDERNESS

• FURTHER INDIA

• GAZETTEER OF BURMA, VOL. I & II

• THE KACHIN, RELIGION AND CUSTOMS

• A THOUSAND MILES ON AN ELEPHANT IN THE SHAN STATES

• ANCIENT BUDDHIST ART FROM BURMA

• FOLK ELEMENTS IN BURMESE BUDDHISM

• KING THEBAW AND THE ECOLOGICAL RAPE OF BURMA: The Political and Commercial Struggle Between British India and French Indo-China in Burma 1878-1886

• A THOUSAND LIVES AWAY: BUDDHISM IN CONTEMPORARY BURMA

• WHO KILLED AUNG SAN?

• BURMESE ADMINISTRATIVE CYCLES: ANARCHY AND CONQUEST, C. 1580-1760

• BURMA IN REVOLT

• AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND BURMA'S UNFINISHED RENAISSANCE

• FROM SANGHA TO LAITY

• FORGOTTEN LAND: A REDISCOVERY OF BURMA

• MANDALAY AND OTHER CITIES OF THE PAST IN BURMA

• THE PENTAGONAL MONUMENTS OF PAGAN

• SANSKRIT BUDDHISM IN BURMA

• THE INTIATION OF NOVICEHOOD AND THE ORDINATION OF MONKHOOD IN THE BURMESE BUDDHIST CULTURE

• BURMA: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity

• RETURN VIA RANGOON: A young Chindit survives the jungle and Japanese captivity

• BURMA NATIONALISM AND IDEOLOGY - ANALYSIS OF SOCIETY CULTURE AND POLITICS

• THE STATE OF BURMA

• BURMESE TIMBER ELEPHANT

• A JOURNALIST, A GENERAL AND AN ARMY IN BURMA

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