Book Number: 21 469

Pichard, Pierre

THE PENTAGONAL MONUMENTS OF PAGAN

They are exceptional in the ancient architecture of Southeast Asia and are indeed rare in the whole history of architecture. This original study by Pierre Pichard, architect and member of Ecole Française d' Extrème Orient, presents 17 monuments, discussing the doctrinal, historical, and architectural features of these unique achievements of the Burmese genius.

(Bangkok 1991) ISBN 974-8495-49-3

157 pp., fully illus., 210 x 295 mm

35.- US-Dollar

Burma:

• VISIONS OF SHWEDAGON

• PAGAN, THE ORIGINS OF MODERN BURMA

• IRRIGATION IN THE HEARTLAND OF BURMA: FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRE-COLONIAL BURMESE STATE

• GOLDEN TRIANGLE FRONTIER AND WILDERNESS

• FURTHER INDIA

• GAZETTEER OF BURMA, VOL. I & II

• THE KACHIN, RELIGION AND CUSTOMS

• A THOUSAND MILES ON AN ELEPHANT IN THE SHAN STATES

• ANCIENT BUDDHIST ART FROM BURMA

• FOLK ELEMENTS IN BURMESE BUDDHISM

• BURMESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE - The Johan Möger Collection

• KING THEBAW AND THE ECOLOGICAL RAPE OF BURMA: The Political and Commercial Struggle Between British India and French Indo-China in Burma 1878-1886

• A THOUSAND LIVES AWAY: BUDDHISM IN CONTEMPORARY BURMA

• WHO KILLED AUNG SAN?

• BURMESE ADMINISTRATIVE CYCLES: ANARCHY AND CONQUEST, C. 1580-1760

• BURMA IN REVOLT

• AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND BURMA'S UNFINISHED RENAISSANCE

• FROM SANGHA TO LAITY

• FORGOTTEN LAND: A REDISCOVERY OF BURMA

• MANDALAY AND OTHER CITIES OF THE PAST IN BURMA

• SANSKRIT BUDDHISM IN BURMA

• THE INTIATION OF NOVICEHOOD AND THE ORDINATION OF MONKHOOD IN THE BURMESE BUDDHIST CULTURE

• BURMA: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity

• RETURN VIA RANGOON: A young Chindit survives the jungle and Japanese captivity

• BURMA NATIONALISM AND IDEOLOGY - ANALYSIS OF SOCIETY CULTURE AND POLITICS

• THE STATE OF BURMA

• BURMESE TIMBER ELEPHANT

• A JOURNALIST, A GENERAL AND AN ARMY IN BURMA

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