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SUMMARY:Current studies in the epigraphy of Thailand and Laos
LOCATION:Room 3.03
DESCRIPTION:This panel is constituted of four scholars from France and Thai
 land. They examine different aspects of the Thai “epigraphic habit” – as La
 tinist Ramsay MacMullen puts it – relative to specific political areas, nam
 ely Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Lan Na and Lan Xang. \n\nThe first paper studies 
 the inscriptions of Sukhothai written in Pali language, focusing on two asp
 ects. On the one hand, it evaluates the function that this language occupie
 s in the inscriptions – e.g. public, symbolic, apotropaic, etc. – and in th
 eir contents, in order to draw out the elements that participate in the ins
 tallation and dissemination of the Pali “ideology”, with all that it convey
 s in terms of references to the canonical corpus. Pali epigraphy was an ess
 ential vector in the installation of “Theravada” Buddhism in the kingdom, a
 s a tool embodying a form of religious legitimacy, perfectly manipulated by
  the Thai religious and royal powers. \n\nThe second paper aims to address 
 a little-documented period of the history of the kingdom of Ayutthaya, name
 ly the reign of Somdet Chao Sam Phraya (r. 1424–1448). It will scrutinize t
 he epigraphic corpus of this period, which was overlooked by Western schola
 rs. At the same time, the issue of the scarcity of inscriptions found in th
 e kingdom of Ayutthaya will be raised. The epigraphy of Ayutthaya, in the f
 irst centuries, is extremely limited and seems to ignore the model of Sukho
 thai  inherited from the Khmer: the warrior narratives, the long eulogies o
 f the rulers, the lists of foundations, the territorial claims, are all abs
 ent. The question arises, therefore, what remains of the Siamese contributi
 on to epigraphy, and also what are the connections with Lanna and Sukhothai
  inscriptions in terms of historiography and literacy. \n\nThe third and fo
 urth papers address ongoing projects dedicated to the epigraphic corpus of 
 the kingodms of Lan Na (present-day in Northern Thailand) and Lan Xang (pre
 esnt-day in Laos) respectively. The former reports a research project on th
 e epigraphic corpus and archaeological remains recently unearthed in the Fa
 ng river basin (Chiang Mai province), in cooperation with two researchers a
 t the Chiang Mai University (Thailand). This project aims to document and p
 ublish the  epigraphic corpus of this region, as well as to contribute to t
 he history of the spread of Buddhism (in the 15th –16th centuries) in this 
 part of the ancient kingdom of Lan Na, on the fringes of Burma. The latter 
 concerns the inscriptions written on stone of the Lao cultural area. It aim
 s to take stock of the first corpus to be edited, i.e. the stele inscriptio
 ns of the “greater” Lan Xang kingdom (16th –17th c.), on a territory which 
 corresponded to present-day Laos and the northeastern region of Thailand. I
 t attempts to highlight what characterizes these inscriptions – especially 
 with regard to that of neighboring realms –, and to explain the choices tha
 t have been made for their edition on paper and for online database.
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/current-studies-in-the-epigraphy-of-thailand-and-laos
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