Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Robert L. Brown -- Acknowledgements / Robert L. Brown -- List of Drawings / Robert L. Brown -- List of Figures / Robert L. Brown -- Map / Robert L. Brown -- Introduction / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter One The Background: History, Maṇá¸ōala , and Cambodia / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Two The Interface: The Northeastern and Southern Thailand / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Three The Center: Central and Eastern Thailand / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Four The Cakras and Their Related Monuments / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Five The Cakras and Their Related Inscriptions / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Six The Cakra Sequence / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Seven The Cakra Patterns and Their Relationships / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Eight The Cakra Patterns and Their Organization / Robert L. Brown -- Chapter Nine Planned Inconsistencies and Anomaly in Cakra Designs / Robert L. Brown -- Conclusion / Robert L. Brown -- Appendix / Robert L. Brown -- Bibliography of Cited Works / Robert L. Brown -- Bibliography of Cited Works in Thai Transcription / Robert L. Brown -- Index / Robert L. Brown -- Drawings / Robert L. Brown -- Figures the Cakras / Robert L. Brown -- Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology / Robert L. Brown.

This volume deals with a unique group of stone sculptures, representations of the Buddha's Wheel of the Law, found in present-day Thailand that date from about the seventh-eighth centuries CE. The book places these sculptures in their historical, religious, and art historical contexts to determine what they meant to the culture (called Dvāravatī) that produced them. Thus, other art historical material associated with the Wheels, including stone deer, Buddha images, and stupas, are discussed. Of greatest importance is how these sculptures relate to both the art in Cambodia and that in India, and to determine what these relationships can tell us about the process (called Indianization) by which Indian culture, religion, and art were adapted in Southeast Asia.

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