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PROF Ashley Thompson's Outputs (69)

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.

Calling the Earth to Witness (2023)
Journal Article
Thompson, A. (2023). Calling the Earth to Witness

In relation to the Māravijaya, an occurrence in the Buddha’s life that is commonly represented in Cambodian art, and Letters from Panduranga, a video work by artist and filmmaker Nguyễn Trinh Thi, art historian Ashley Thompson discusses ideas of land... Read More about Calling the Earth to Witness.

Mainland Southeast Asia after Angkor: On the Legacies of Jayavarman VII (2023)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2023). Mainland Southeast Asia after Angkor: On the Legacies of Jayavarman VII. In M. Hendrickson, M. T. Stark, & D. Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351128940-39

The reach of Angkor will always exceed the territorial and temporal delimitation which historians and politicians alike seek to give it; indeed, attempts to pin down dates and borders shed light on the uncontainability of empire which defines empire,... Read More about Mainland Southeast Asia after Angkor: On the Legacies of Jayavarman VII.

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.

Revenons, Revenants: Mémoires d’Angkor (2021)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2021). Revenons, Revenants: Mémoires d’Angkor. In J. Thach, E. Bourdonneau, & G. Mikaelian (Eds.), Temps et Temporalités khmères : de près, de loin, entre îles et péninsules (345 -375). Peter Lang

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.

Portrait of the Artist as a Buddhist Man (2017)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2017). Portrait of the Artist as a Buddhist Man. In S. Collins, & J. Scober (Eds.), Theravada Encounters with Modernity (118-136). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315637600-8

David Wyatt's rhetorical strategy aims to meet a double objective. First, it should enable the reader, whom Wyatt assumes to identify with Judeo-Christian culture, to access his Thai Buddhist material. Second, the supposed functional equivalence of i... Read More about Portrait of the Artist as a Buddhist Man.

Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past (2016)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2016). Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past. In M. Jerryson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.32

Attentive to the oxymoron of its title, this chapter looks for insight into the contemporary moment through an extended examination of traditions, or symptoms, rooted in the past. Accordingly, the chapter explores a series of transformative periods o... Read More about Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past.

Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (2016)
Book
Thompson, A. (2016). Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620855

Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural... Read More about Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor.