Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (11)

Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia (2025)
Thesis
Panggah, A. Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis focuses on the afterlives of ancient materials in Indonesia, a project aiming to contribute to decolonising the field of Indonesian art history and archaeology.1 I pursue this essential purpose by adopting a specific local epistemological... Read More about Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia.

Transactions in Teaching Tembang Sunda Cianjuran and Jaipongan in West Java (2024)
Thesis
Walsh, V. A. Transactions in Teaching Tembang Sunda Cianjuran and Jaipongan in West Java. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the transmission of Sundanese tembang Sunda Cianjuran song and jaipongan dance in Bandung, West Java. The author investigates exchanges of divergent forms of knowledge and power between teachers and students. As well as teaching... Read More about Transactions in Teaching Tembang Sunda Cianjuran and Jaipongan in West Java.

Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives from the History of Art and Archaeology (2022)
Book
Thompson, A. (Ed.). (2022). Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives from the History of Art and Archaeology. NUS Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2wn4cdz

What explains the spread of Theravada Buddhism? And how is it entangled with the identity shifts that over the next four hundred years gave rise to the Buddhist state now called Cambodia? Early Theravadin Cambodia sheds light on one of the outstandin... Read More about Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives from the History of Art and Archaeology.

Icons: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art (2022)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2022). Icons: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art. In S. C. Berkwitz, & A. Thompson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351026666-25

There is a window at the heights of the monumental structure of fourteenth-century Wat Si Chum at Sukhothai, northern Thailand. The window looks in, not out, over the shoulder of the colossal seated Buddha statue, allowing one to peer down discreetly... Read More about Icons: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art.

Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism (2022)
Book
Berkwitz, S. C., & Thompson, A. (Eds.). (2022). Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351026666

Among one of the older subfields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new su... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism.

Figuring the Buddha (2020)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2020). Figuring the Buddha. In G. Mikaelian, A. Thompson, & S. Sophearith (Eds.), Liber Amicorum: mélanges réunis en hommage à, in honor of, Ang Chouléan (211-237). Association Péninsule, Association des Amis de Yosothor

Tracing Buddhism in the British Museum : Biographies of Select Buddhist Objects acquired by the British Museum in the 19th - 20th c (2019)
Thesis
Parker, D. C. Tracing Buddhism in the British Museum : Biographies of Select Buddhist Objects acquired by the British Museum in the 19th - 20th c. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis studies the history, acquisition and exhibition history of the Amaravati Marbles, the Bimaran Reliquary, the Kanishka Reliquary and the Shalabhanjika Yakshi currently held by the British Museum. It additionally examines the interaction be... Read More about Tracing Buddhism in the British Museum : Biographies of Select Buddhist Objects acquired by the British Museum in the 19th - 20th c.

Seeing The ‘Foreigner’ In The Art Of Early Southeast Asia c.100 BCE – c.900 CE (2018)
Thesis
Wreyford, B. Seeing The ‘Foreigner’ In The Art Of Early Southeast Asia c.100 BCE – c.900 CE. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The millennium between c.100 BCE and c.900 CE saw the growth of long-distance economic and cultural exchange both within and beyond Southeast Asia, processes which contributed to the development of early states and precipitated cultural changes throu... Read More about Seeing The ‘Foreigner’ In The Art Of Early Southeast Asia c.100 BCE – c.900 CE.