Ta Mok Shwe-gu-gyi Temple: Local Art in Upper Myanmar 11-17th century AD

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Main author: Moore, Elizabeth
Other authors: Win Maung, (Tampawaddy)
Htwe Htwe, Win
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institution SOAS, University of London
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language English
language_search English
description The article explores the relationship of a local tradition of nine Shwe-gu or “golden caves” and the 11 khayaing of Kyaukse, the rice fields that supplied Bagan. Drawing on survey and ongoing work at the Ta Mok khayaing Shwe-gu-gyi, we profile a local specificity essential to and yet far from the courts of 11th–17th century Bagan, Pinya and Inwa. In its multiple encasements of images and architecture, the Ta Mok Shwe-gu-gyi records a transition from the visual complexity of Bagan period gu to the more iconic structures of the Pinya and Inwa eras.
author_additional Bonatz, Dominik
author_additionalStr Bonatz, Dominik
format Book Chapters
author Moore, Elizabeth
author_facet Moore, Elizabeth
Win Maung, (Tampawaddy)
Htwe Htwe, Win
authorStr Moore, Elizabeth
author_letter Moore, Elizabeth
author2 Win Maung, (Tampawaddy)
Htwe Htwe, Win
author2Str Win Maung, (Tampawaddy)
Htwe Htwe, Win
title Ta Mok Shwe-gu-gyi Temple: Local Art in Upper Myanmar 11-17th century AD
publisher National University of Singapore Press
publishDate 2013
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14639/

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