{"product_id":"9780789211941","title":"The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand \u0026 Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia, abundantly illustrated with new color photography and 3-D renderings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of its 2,500-year history, Buddhism has found expression in countless architectural forms, from the great monastic complexes of ancient India to the fortified \u003ci\u003edzongs\u003c\/i\u003e of Bhutan, the rock-carved temple grottoes of China, the wooden shrines of Japan, and the colorful \u003ci\u003ewats\u003c\/i\u003e of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Architecture of the Buddhist World, a projected six-volume series by the noted architect and scholar Vikram Lall, represents a new multidisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject, showing how Buddhist thought and ritual have interacted with local traditions across the Asian continent to produce masterpieces of religious architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume in the series, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Lands\u003c\/i\u003e, is devoted to Southeast Asia, home to many of the most spectacular Buddhist monuments. Following a general introduction to the early history of Buddhism and its most characteristic architectural forms (the stupa, the temple, and the monastery), Lall examines the Buddhist architecture of Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos in turn. For each country, he provides both a historical overview and case studies of noteworthy structures. Lall’s concise and accessible text is illustrated throughout with new color photography, as well as 3-D architectural renderings that make even the most complex structures easily comprehensible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe monuments that Lall considers in \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Lands\u003c\/i\u003e range from the modest Bupaya stupa, constructed in Bagan, Myanmar, in the third century AD, to the vast complex of Borobudur in Central Java, the world’s largest Buddhist monument; his achievement is to place them all within a single panorama of history, religion, and artistic innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistributed for JF Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026104664304,"sku":"9780789211941","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780789211941_p0.jpg?v=1763662571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780789211941","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}