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This edited volume programmatically reconsiders the creative contribution of the littoral and insular regions of Maritime Asia to shaping new paradigms in the Buddhist and Hindu art and architecture of the mediaeval Asian world. Far from being a mere southern conduit for the maritime circulation of Indic religions, in the period from circa the seventh to the fourteenth-century those regions transformed across mainland and island polities the rituals, icons, and architecture that embodied these religious insights with a dynamism that often eclipsed the established cultural centres in Northern India, Central Asia, and mainland China. This collective body of work brings together new research aiming to recalibrate the importance of these innovations in art and architecture, thereby highlighting the cultural creativity of the monsoon-influenced Southern rim of the Asian landmass.

Art, Medieval --- Buddhist art --- Hindu art --- Art, Hindu --- Art --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Buddhism and art --- Medieval art --- History.

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Art, Lao --- Buddhist art --- Laos --- Antiquities --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Art, Laotian --- Lao art --- Antiquities. --- Buddhist art - Laos --- Laos - Antiquities

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Buddhist art --- Japanese. --- J1895 --- J6008 --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Japanese --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- art --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- history

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Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings display Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha's teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his community, with the aim of transforming the devotees' current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged. Green's visits to more than 160 sites with identifiable subject matter form the basis of this richly illustrated volume, which draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze the wall paintings and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form.

Narrative painting --- Buddhist art --- Mural painting and decoration, Burmese. --- Burmese mural painting and decoration --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Genre painting --- Painting

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Buddhist art - China - Khara Khoto (Extinct city) - Exhibitions --- Art, Medieval - China - Khara Khoto (Extinct city) - Exhibitions --- Buddhist art --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art