The Buddhist Pantheon of the Bayon of Angkor :

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" The Buddhist Pantheon of the Bayon of Angkor : "
Sharrock, Peter David.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1099143
Doc. No	:	TLets566273
Main Entry	:	Sharrock, Peter David.
Title & Author	:	The Buddhist Pantheon of the Bayon of Angkor :\ Sharrock, Peter David.
College	:	School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)
Date	:	2007
student score	:	2007
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This dissertation marshals a range of new evidence to reconstruct the 12th to 13th century Buddhism and sacred art of king Jayavarman VII. It traces political and cultural roots reaching back to the rise of Tantric Buddhism in eighth century Pala India. It links developments in peninsular pre-Thailand and across the Korat plateau with 10 th century temple art and inscriptions in Cambodia, where a Buddhist revival was influenced by the yogatantras, the first Tantras opening the 'path of vajra' or Vajrayana. The evidence for Tantric Khmer Buddhism is gleaned from a new translation of a key Sanskrit inscription and from sacred relief carvings. An analysis of the 11-12th century sacred art of Phimai, a major foundation in modern Northeast Thailand, evinces the arrival of the mature Vajrayanist yoginTtantras sustaining a Buddhist dynasty, which had seized power in Angkor and would later invest its religious beliefs in the Bayon. The phased building plan of Jayavarman VII's many temples and the iconography of the Bayon-style are reassessed, bringing to bear previously unpublished data from the king's large temple of Banteay Chmar northwest of Angkor. The reign of Jayavarman VII is substantially reconfigured, presenting his methodical introduction of new doctrine and consequent political dominance via carefully orchestrated stages which subjected the entrenched Brahmanical elite to politico-religious campaigns of consecrations to Lokesvara and ultimately to Hevajra and Vajrasattva. Throughout this thesis, exhaustive analysis is made of existing scholarship, which is confronted with a substantial body of new epigraphic and iconographic data.
Added Entry	:	School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)