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Devotion - Image, Recitation, and Celebration of the Vessantara Epic in Northeast Thailand (Hardcover)
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Devotion - Image, Recitation, and Celebration of the Vessantara Epic in Northeast Thailand (Hardcover)
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The Vessantara Jataka is the tale of Buddha's last life, before he
was reborn as the historical Buddha 2,500 years ago. In this
earlier existence as Prince Vessantara he demonstrated evidence of
the highest virtue that constitutes an enlightened man: generosity.
Vessantara gave away everything dear to him - in the climactic
scene of the story, even his wife and children. In North-East
Thailand the Vessantara tale is celebrated annually as Bun Phra
Wet. Pha Phra Wet - 'Vessantara cloths' - form the visual framework
for this festival; they are hand-painted scrolls, which can reach
lengths of up to one hundred metres. Devotion presents, for the
very first time, a selection of six full-length Vessantara scrolls
and explores a contemporary multimedia celebration of an ancient
Buddhist text.
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