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Academic conference on “Ghosts”
Consider submitting to or attending our academic conference on the topic of Ghosts. More information here: https://www.facebook.com/pbicthaiconferences
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Pre-order book
You can actually pre-order my (rather expensive!) book on understanding Buddhism via Thailand’s national poet here: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/a-drunken-bee-sunthorn-phu-and-the-buddhist-landscapes-of-early-bangkok/
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Thai Amulets JSS Special Edition
I enjoyed being the guest editor to this Special Edition of the Journal of the Siam Society on Thai amulets. Even if it’s not something you’d think you’d be interested in, there’s a lot of quirky stuff in there and Thai amulets turn out to be much more relevant and popular than you might have…
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Digital Thai Temples website live
A new website is now live! The website contains presentations of particular temples in Bangkok, with videos and 3D models of their histories and explanations of artwork within. It is meant primarily as an educational resource and even includes quizzes on some temples for students. It also includes work by students and we highly encourage…
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Short documentary on Buddhist amulets in Thailand
This short documentary was made by myself and photographer Ulf Svane. It was to be shown at the PBIC International Conference on Amulet Cultures in Thailand in Bangkok 11-12th June 2023. It was supposed to be just a history of the Tha Prachan amulet market, next to Thammasat Tha Prachan campus. However, it ended up…
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Buddhist fiction films
There are several good lists of Buddhist movies already available on the net, such as this http://suite101.com/article/best-buddhist-movies-a95083 I’ve used these lists myself quite a bit, but hopefully this list will be different enough to be useful to somebody else. What is a ‘Buddhist’ movie? I have quite a liberal definition and that is: any film that…
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Wat Tam Doy Tohn
Wat Tam Doy Tohn is a few hours out of Chiang Mai. Despite having been used as a station for monks for many years, the current temple buildings are all new, having gone up in the past twenty years or so. Ajarn Piyadhassi is quite well-renowned in local circles, particularly it seems amongst middle-class Thai…
