Records start around Minnanthu before going north towards Nyaung U, where outstanding mural paintings are found in the Nanda-manya-hpaya and in the temples of the Winido group. The fourteenth-century Hsin-byu-shin monastic complex is represented in full, followed by the great Sula-mani-gu-hpaya temple of 1172 and the Dhamma-yan-gyi temple with its mysteriously blocked inner corridor. The inventory proceeds south to rarely visited monuments such as the Ngamyet-hna-hpaya near Kazun-o and Hpaya-ni, ending up around the Pya-tha ...
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Records start around Minnanthu before going north towards Nyaung U, where outstanding mural paintings are found in the Nanda-manya-hpaya and in the temples of the Winido group. The fourteenth-century Hsin-byu-shin monastic complex is represented in full, followed by the great Sula-mani-gu-hpaya temple of 1172 and the Dhamma-yan-gyi temple with its mysteriously blocked inner corridor. The inventory proceeds south to rarely visited monuments such as the Ngamyet-hna-hpaya near Kazun-o and Hpaya-ni, ending up around the Pya-tha-da-gyi.
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Add this copy of Inventory of Monuments at Pagan, Burma (Myanmar). to cart. $1,000.00, very good condition, Sold by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Paris: UNESCO, 1992-1994.
Edition:
1993, United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cult
Publisher:
United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cult
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17912823548
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Four volumes. Original green cloth. 23 x 28cm. Ca. 1600 pages with many illustrations....Spine of Vol. two faded.; corners slighly rubbed...Very good. v. 1. Monuments 1-255, ISBN 9231027956; v. 2. Monuments 256-552, ISBN 231028367; v. 3. Monuments 553-818, ISBN 9231029460; v. 4. Monuments 819-1136, ISBN 9231030590....Formerly known as Pagan, Bagan is an ancient city of vast archeological structure which is located in Mandalay region of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Bagan was the capital city of Kingdom of Pagan from 9th to 13th century and is the first kingdom to unify regions that later constitute Myanmar of the present day. The Bagan Archeological Zone is seen as equal to Angkor of Cambodia in terms of attraction and is the main center of Burma's nascent tourism industry. Till present day, Bagan is the roof of 2200 temples and pagodas which would count to 10, 000 during the time of Kingdom of Pagan......Bagan is overwhelmed by thousands of monuments which are covering an area of around three hundred sq. km at the eastern bank of Ayeyarwady in Myanmar...........Pierre Pichard, an architect with the École française d'Extrême-Orient for over thirty years, has participated in conservation projects in Thailand, Burma, India, Bhutan, Laos and Vietnam.......De 1982 à 1992, P. Pichard est chargé par l'Unesco de la coordination internationale du programme de protection du patrimoine culturel de Birmanie; à partir de 1992, il publie l'inventaire des monuments de Pagan. À la demande des autorités thaïes, il organise aussi le chantier école de Phanom Wan, accueille au Centre d'histoire et d'archéologie de l'EFEO à Pondichéry des stagiaires indiens, népalais, birmans, thaïs, bhoutanais et bangladeshi, participe aux missions de l'EFEO à Angkor (1991) et au Laos (1996), et supervise au Bhoutan le chantier de conservation du monastère de Dechenphug (1995-1996)....Nommé maître de recherche en 1992, il ouvre en 1997 le bureau de l'EFEO de Bangkok dans le Centre d'anthropologie Sirindhorn avec un programme d'étude comparative du monastère bouddhique.
