Refashioning space: The Shwedagon in British Burma (Myanmar)

The Buddhist arts of Myanmar,drawing in varied concepts of direction and boundary to sacred place,have developed a richly localized vocabulary over periods of both amalgamation and conflict. The late nineteenth century CE was one of the latter,when at the end of the Second Anglo-Burmese War British troops occupied the highly venerated Shwedagon pagoda. Nonetheless,or perhaps as a result,patronage flourished and new donations embellished religious spaces. In their contrasting worldviews and styles,the arts of this period illustrate the role of material culture in both reflecting and re-redefining the 'local' within wider processes of social change.

Disciplines : Les arts,Histoire générale de l'Asie. Orient. Extrême-Orient. Moyen et Proche Orient.
Mots-clés : bouddhisme,Arts,Myanmar
Type de document : image en mouvement
Type de ressource : lecture
Niveau : higher education
Auteurs ou éditeurs : Elizabeth Moore,EFEO Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient