"Baiye Sutra Making Skills Inheritors Training Course", which is one of the ways to protect cultural heritage with public power. Therefore, when you walk into Banna, you can still see the elderly carving the Bayeux Sutra on the banknotes in front of the Buddhist temple. Photo Credit: Zhang Yaliang The Buddhist Temple in Laos (Manuscript Preservation Center), taken by the author in Vat Souvannapoumaram, Luang Prabang Photo Credit: Zhang Yaliang
The elders in Yunnan wrote and engraved the Book of Leaves in front of a Buddhist temple. The author took them in Xishuangbanna. Continuing from mainland Southeast Asia to island Southeast Asia, different ethnic groups and religions create different manuscript styles. In 2017, I traveled to Kuala Lumpur and visited the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, the sms services largest Islamic art museum in Southeast Asia . The museum has many exhibition halls with different themes, including architecture, interior design, weapons, textiles, utensils, painting, calligraphy And manuscripts, etc.,
that was the first time I witnessed all kinds of Islamic art and its manuscripts, and I was shocked by the visual space opened up by geometric figures. Like ordinary Taiwanese, I seldom come into contact with Islamic culture in my life. It was not until I entered Xingmao that I experienced different cultural shocks. Photo Credit: Zhang Yaliang Manuscript of the Malay Peninsula (19th century), photographed by the author at the Museum of Islamic Art, Malaysia. 1 2 ยป Read the full text Don't want to paginate?