Traditional Thai Mural Painting: The Thai Cosmos and the Jakatas

286th INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by Carol Stratton The Script for Carol’s Talk and Presentation The subjects most often depicted on monastery walls are the Life of the Buddha and the tosachat, the last ten Jatakas telling of the Buddha’s ten previous lives. These Jatakas each explain a given virtue which the … Read more

The Jewel of Suvannaphoum: Unraveling the Mystery of the Emerald Buddha

280th INTG Meeting – A Talk and DVD Video Presentation by Reinhard Hohler Introduction The documentary was produced in 1989, when Reinhard Hohler led a German ZDF television channel film team across Thailand to unravel the mystery of the Emerald Buddha. The film Reinhard showed this evening was a recently released American edition, with an … Read more

The Giant Appliqué Thangkas of Tsurphu Monastery in Tibet

271st INTG Meeting – A Talk and Video Presentation by Terris and Leslie Nguyen Temple About Terris and Leslie Terris Temple (USA) has been involved in studying, creating and teaching Tibetan thangka art for the last thirty years. Prior to working on this project he focused on teaching thangka iconography and painting to his students. … Read more

Continuation and Disruption of the Karen Religious Movement: Case of the Myitta Byamasoe in Burma

270th INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by Dr. Kwanchewan Buadaeng 1, 2 Full Text of Dr. Kwanchewan’s Talk and Presentation The majority of the Karen peoples live in the frontier between Burma3 and Thailand. In Burma, while some Karen live in the mountainous areas near to the border, many live on the plain … Read more

Is “Taization” Equivalent to Assimilation

268th INTG Meeting – A talk by Olivier Evrard Acculturation and Perpetuation of Ethnic Boundaries in Northern Thailand and Laos About the Speaker Olivier Evrard is an anthropologist at IRD (Institut de Recherché pour le Developpement, previously called Orstom) and is currently collaborating with the Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University. He has been doing … Read more

The ‘Sinhalese’ Buddha – Thailand’s Highly Revered Guardian Image in the National Museum Bangkok

A Detective Story: Is This Image the Original? Two Others Claim the Title. 260th INTG Meeting – A talk and slide presentation by Carol Stratton About the Speaker Carol Stratton has been working on the art history of Thailand for over thirty years. She and her family lived in Bangkok for six years during the … Read more

Introduction to the History and Significance of Champa

254th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Michael Vickery What was Champa? Champa no longer exists as a separate entity. There was an officially recognized Champa (recognized at the time by China, Vietnam and Cambodia) under that name along parts of the coast of what is now central and southern Vietnam from at least the 7th century … Read more

Reflections on 40 Years of Research about Thailand

251st INTG Meeting – A talk by Niels Mulder Summary of Niels Mulder’s Talk In the last days of the year 2000, when I finished writing ‘Southeast Asian Images – Towards civil society?’ (Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2003), I knew it would be my last work based on field research. That being the sign of … Read more