Three Worlds According to King Ruang: A Thai Buddhist Cosmology (Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 4) (English and Thai Edition)
By Unknown Author.
Description
In the 14th century, the heir apparent to the throne of the central Thai kingdom completed the first truly literary work of a Thai author. Phya Lithai entitled his work Sermon on the Three Worlds but it later became known as Three Worlds of King Ruang. It is the culmination of a long history of visionary and cosmological literature within the Theravada tradition, representing in a vivid and concise form, the religious universe within which Thai Buddhists have traditionally lived. In particular, the description of death and the fates which await beings who die in the thirty-one realms of the...
ISBN(s)
0895811537, 9780895811530
