A detailed vision of the cremation of a prominent Burmese Buddhist monk.
Creators: Unknown Burmese artist
Date of Creation: Late 1830s
Place of origin: Tavoy, Burma (Dawei, Myanmar)
Physical measurements: 1 page
Materials: Watercolor, paper, pencil, ink
Process by which it was made: Painting
Current location: American Baptist Historical Society.
Further Reading
Isaacs, Ralph. 2009. “Rockets and Ashes: Pongyibyan as depicted in nineteenth-and twentieth-century European sources.” Journal of Burma Studies 13 (1): 107-136.
Lopez, Donald S. 1995. Curators of the Buddha: the study of Buddhism under colonialism. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press.
Masuzawa, Tomoko. 2005. The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, University of Chicago Press.
Information contributed by Alexandra Kaloyanides.