A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast
Asia, abundantly illustrated with new color photography and 3-D
renderings
Over the course of its 2,500-year history, Buddhism has found
expression in countless architectural forms, from the great
monastic complexes of ancient India to the fortified "dzongs" of
Bhutan, the rock-carved temple grottoes of China, the wooden
shrines of Japan, and the colorful "wats" of Cambodia, Laos, and
Thailand. Architecture of the Buddhist World, a projected
six-volume series by the noted architect and scholar Vikram Lall,
represents a new multidisciplinary approach to this fascinating
subject, showing how Buddhist thought and ritual have interacted
with local traditions across the Asian continent to produce
masterpieces of religious architecture.
The first volume in the series, "The Golden Lands," is devoted to
Southeast Asia, home to many of the most spectacular Buddhist
monuments. Following a general introduction to the early history of
Buddhism and its most characteristic architectural forms (the
stupa, the temple, and the monastery), Lall examines the Buddhist
architecture of Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand,
and Laos in turn. For each country, he provides both a historical
overview and case studies of noteworthy structures. Lall's concise
and accessible text is illustrated throughout with new color
photography, as well as 3-D architectural renderings that make even
the most complex structures easily comprehensible.
The monuments that Lall considers in "The Golden Lands" range from
the modest Bupaya stupa, constructed in Bagan, Myanmar, in the
third century AD, to the vast complex of Borobudur in Central Java,
the world's largest Buddhist monument; his achievement is to place
them all within a single panorama of history, religion, and
artistic innovation.
Distributed for JF Publishing
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