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- The Ramayana
- The Hindu epic The Ramayana is retold through the mural, painting, and dance of Southeast Asia.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Montagnards
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 13
- The region around Mai Chau is home to ethnic minorities sometimes known in Vietnam as “hill tribes” or Montagnards (“mountain people”). In this part of northern Vietnam, the highland minority groups are mostly speakers of Tai languages,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Thailand vegetation map, 1974
- Format: image/map
- Map of Thailand
- Format: image/map
- An heir to the throne
- In The Ramayana, page 1.2
- In this painting, the green-skinned king at left and the white-skinned queen at the right sit together on a blue painted platform under a gold-leaf painted arch representing their tiered roof palace at Ayudhya.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The Garuda king
- In The Ramayana, page 5.11
- The bird-headed Garuda king swoops down and grips three wriggling green serpents in its claws. The front of the Garuda king is brown while his crown, wings, and tail feathers are painted in gold leaf.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Forest growth in Thailand
- Format: image/map
- Serpents attack Rama's troops
- In The Ramayana, page 5.9
- Rama's monkey allies struggle but many lay strewn on the ground, tangled in snakes. Towards the top left corner, the green-skinned Rama sits beside Laksman who is lying bound by a serpent.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Sita proves her purity
- In The Ramayana, page 6.13
- In this mural detail, Sita stands calmly in a gated area with flames burning around the lotus blossom platform on which she stands. One of the monkey kings lights the fire with a torch in front, while other monkey king spectators are visible at right.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- An underground demon
- In The Ramayana, page 4.14
- This dark and fierce demon, whose top half is seen as if from above, has small tusks and curly hair. He is wearing a gold headdress and arm bands as he pushes the crust of the earth upward. The image is from a mural in the Emerald Buddha Temple.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Hanuman tries to stop the sun
- In The Ramayana, page 5.3
- A two-faced and eight-armed Hanuman is flying out of the clouds to grab the outer rings of a gold, red, and green sun. The sun is shown here as a nested set of colored concentric circles. A mountain and forest scene is visible below.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Laksman is wounded
- In The Ramayana, page 5.2
- In this scene, the mortally wounded Laksman lies on his side near boulders in the forest. Rama sits close beside him while the monkey kings and courtiers gather in front of them in a semi-circle. The poison spear now rests on the ground as it has been pulled...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Fare collector on bus in Thailand
- Unlike American buses, most buses in other parts of the world, especially those outside very large cities, (like Bangkok) have at least two employees. One employee drives the bus, the other takes the bus fare from the passengers. Sometimes the fare is the...
- Format: audio
- Hanuman crushes Ravana's soul container
- In The Ramayana, page 6.8
- Balancing on his right leg, Hanuman grips the wooden cylinder with both hands and his left foot. Hanuman's face looks to the right side of the frame with his mouth wide open in triumph. Hanuman is dressed in gold pants and jewelry with a red waistband, whose...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Puppet theater in Thailand
- This was recorded in Trang, Thailand, a town near the southeastern coast. During the ten-day Buddhist festival in Trang, activities and performances take place day and night. Every night at the local theater there is a shadow puppet performance. Known as Nang...
- Format: audio
- Buddhist prayer and percussion
- Part of a ten-day vegetarian festival. The monks initiate this meditation, or prayer, while making percussion noises. Worshipers join in. From my journal: On the way to Ani and Hans, a girl comes out and wants to take me to the temple. This is...
- Format: audio
- A demon giant blocks the way
- In The Ramayana, page 5.5
- A demon giant, seen lying beyond Rama's pavilions, blocks the river's water with his body. The fanged demon lies on his side on the ground while holding his huge sword in his right hand. Rama's group is visible in the foreground as they wait in a Siamese-style...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A demon army attacks Rama
- In The Ramayana, page 2.14
- Standing gracefully on one foot, Prince Rama (at left) shoots an arrow at a group of demons sent by Ravana, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The demons, depicted in varied animal-like forms, crowd around their elephant mount.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Thai rock band, Chiang Mai
- Though the music and the sound might make you think that you are in a club in the United States, this band was recorded in a club in Thailand. Western music (like rock, pop, and rap) is enjoyed all over the world. A traveler can hear it on the radio coming...
- Format: audio
- A golden deer
- In The Ramayana, page 2.7
- A two image sequence on a mural painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts a demon's intentional transformation into a deer. In the top image, his legs have turned into those of a golden deer. In the lower image, the demon is fully changed into the deer....
- By Lorraine Aragon.
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