Initial Findings on Wat Suthat
Presence, Power, and Merit-Making in theViharaMurals and Inscriptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luke Schmidt (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 588-605 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2010.00242.x |
| OpenAlex | W1481260216 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
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 problems of viewing and understanding the mural within the context of a monastic building. This paper also examines the role of the Buddhavamsa commentary inscriptions on the walls of the vihara below the mural, showing how they like the murals assert a presence rather than a didactic function
Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Mural · Painting · Political science · Scholarship · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |