The Vessantara Jataka on the move
via The British Library Asian and African Studies Blog, 15 January 2020: Blog post by Leedom Lefferts in conjunction with ...
Tag: merit-making
Buddhist practice of performing good deeds in order to generate beneficial effects for this life and the next.
Rivers and royal barges
via The Nation, 22 July 2019: The next royal barge procession will happen in October in Bangkok.
Volunteer temple restorers ignite storm over Ayutthaya sema painting
via The Nation, 16 October 2018: Devotees in Thailand repaint ancient boundary markers as an act of merit-making. Raises interesting ...
Putting the sacred back into ancient temples
A local advocacy group in Lopburi, Thailand, is seeking ways to restore the sense of sacredness into its ancient temples, ...
Bagan: beautified or sacrificed?
The restoration of Bagan using modern tools and materials risk turning it into another "Disneyland".
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