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Title: What's What In a Wat - Thai Buddhist Temples
Author: x Straton
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Isbn: 978-974-9511-99-2
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Language: English
Rate: 7/7
Type: Buddhism
Summary: As you walk through a Thai temple, a host of unfamiliar objects, shapes, and patterns tug at you from every direction. This handy and lucid guidebook will help you distinguish what is what. It takes you through a representative Thai Buddhist temple, guiding you from structure to structure and element ot element, explaining the function and purpose of each, and the symbolism behind the forms. A Thai wat can be a place of bewildering beauty, but this illustrated companion will help you to focus your eyes and identify what you see. Tourists and residents, novices and scholars will all gain a clearer sense of what a wat is and the role it plays today in the live of Thai people. The author has been researching and writing on Thai Buddhist art history for over forty years.
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