Möchten Sie über diese Zeitschrift informiert bleiben? Klicken Sie bitte auf die Buttons, um unsere Alerts zu abonnieren.
Möchten Sie über diese Zeitschrift informiert bleiben? Klicken Sie bitte auf die Buttons, um unsere Alerts zu abonnieren.
Why did so many Southeast Asian kingdoms choose cremation as a royal rite? Fire rituals werenât simply imported from India. This paper examines how the rituals were reshaped by already established local beliefs that valued cremation. Sites like Sa Huỳnh and Ban Non Wat show that fire burials were current long before Indian religions arrived in the region. Later, Hindu and Buddhist cremation rites were not blindly copied but put to use by monarchs in Funan, Champa, Srivijaya, and Majapahit to broadcast the rulersâ sacred kingship. Religious specialists like Brahmins and monks helped introduce these ideas, but local people made them their own. Meanwhile, regions like northern Vietnam kept their Confucian burial traditions. This paper argues that cremation became part of a political and spiritual language, not because of cultural domination, but because it resonated with existing ways of thinking about death, power, and ancestry.
Kauf
Sofortzugang erwerben (PDF-Download und unbegrenzter Online-Zugang):
Institutszugang
Melden Sie sich mit Open Athens, Shibboleth oder Ihren institutionellen Anmeldedaten an.
Persönliche Anmeldung
Melden Sie sich mit Ihrem brill.com-Konto an
Acri, Andrea. 2011. Dharma PÄtañjala: A Åaiva Scripture from Ancient Java, Studied in the Light of Related Old Javanese and Sanskrit Texts. Vol. 16. Groningen, Netherlands: Egbert Forsten.
Bellina, Bérénice, and Ian Glover. 2004. âThe Archaeology of Early Contact with India and the Mediterranean World, from the Fourth Century BC to the Fourth Century AD.â In Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, edited by Peter Bellwood and Ian Glover, 68â88. London: Routledge.
Bellwood, Peter. 2007. Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. 3rd ed. Canberra: Australian National University E Press.
Coedès, George. 1939. âLa plus ancienne inscription en langue chame.â In âMélanges F. W. Thomas.â Special issue, New Indian Antiquary extra series: 46â49.
Coedès, George. 1971. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.
De Casparis, Johannes Gijsbertus. 1978. Indonesian Chronology. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill.
Finot, Louis. 1902. âDeux nouvelles inscriptions de Bhadravarman I.â Bulletin de lâEcole française dâExtrême-Orient 2(2): 185â191.
Finot, Louis. 1918. âDeux nouvelles inscriptions indochinoises.â Bulletin de lâEcole française dâExtrême-Orient 18(10): 13â16.
Fuller, C. J. 2004. The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Guy, John. 2014. Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harris, Nathan J., and Nancy Tayles. 2012. âBurial Containers â A Hidden Aspect of Mortuary Practices: Archaeothanatology at Ban Non Wat, Thailand.â Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31(2): 227â239.
Higham, Charles. 2014. Early Mainland Southeast Asia: From First Humans to Angkor. Bangkok: River Books.
Hunter, Thomas M. 2007. âThe Body of the King: Reappraising Singhasari Period Syncretism.â Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 38(1): 27â53.
Kelley, Liam C. 2006. ââConfucianismâ in Vietnam: A State of the Field Essay.â Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1(1â2): 314â370.
Kinnard, Jacob N. 2005. âReview of Relics of the Buddha by John S. Strong.â Religion 35(3): 203â205.
Le, Thi Lien. 2011. âHindu Deities in Southern Vietnam â Images Seen on the Tiny Archaeological Artefacts.â Early Indian Influences in Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Movements 2011: 407â431.
Lloyd-Smith, Lindsay. 2011. âReclassification of Later Prehistoric Burials in the West Mouth of Niah Cave.â Sarawak Museum Journal 68(89): 53â152.
Lloyd-Smith, Lindsay. 2013. âThe West Mouth Neolithic Cemetery, Niah Cave, Sarawak.â Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 79: 105â136.
Mabbett, Ian W. 1977. âThe âIndianizationâ of Southeast Asia: Reflections on the Historical Sources.â Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 8(2): 143â161.
Manguin, Pierre-Yves. 2011. âIntroduction.â In Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Exchange, edited by Pierre-Yves Manguin, A. Mani, and Geoff Wade, xiiiâxxxi. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Manguin, Pierre-Yves. 2021. âSrivijaya: Trade and Connectivity in the Pre-Modern Malay World.â Journal of Urban Archaeology 3: 87â100.
Majumdar, R. C. 1927. Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East, I: Champa. Lahore: Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot.
Mukherjee, Rila. 2011. âIntroduction: Bengal and the Northern Bay of Bengal.â In Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism, edited by Rila Mukherjee, 1â262. New Delhi: Primus Books.
Nylan, Michael. 2008. The Five âConfucianâ Classics. New Haven: Yale University Press.
OâReilly, Dougald J. W. 2007. Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
Parry, Jonathan P. 1994. Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pigeaud, Theodore G. Th. 1960. Java in the 14th Century: A Study in Cultural History: The NÄgara-KÄrtÄgama by Rakawi Prapanca of Majapahit, 1365 A.D. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Pollock, Sheldon. 2006. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ray, Himanshu Prabha. 1994. The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Sen, Tansen. 2014. âMaritime Southeast Asia between South Asia and China to the Sixteenth Century.â TRaNS: Trans-Regional and-National Studies of Southeast Asia 2(1): 31â59.
Shaw, Julia. 2015. âBuddhist and Non-Buddhist Mortuary Traditions in Ancient India: StÅ«pas, Relics, and the Archaeological Landscape.â In Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: Death Shall Have No Dominion, edited by Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Boyd, and Iain Morley, 382â403. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ÅlÄ czka, Anna Aleksandra. 2007. Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology. Leiden: Brill.
Strong, John S. 2004. Relics of the Buddha. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Taylor, Keith Weller. 1983. The Birth of Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Thang, D. V., V. T. A. Tuyet, V. T. H. Nhu, and D. V. Hop. 2025. âThe Role of Oc Eo Ancient City in the International Maritime Trade Network (from the First to the Seventh Century).â Journal of Ecohumanism 4(1): 9â11.
Thi Lien, L. 2018. âIndianâSoutheast Asian Contacts and Cultural Exchanges: Evidence from Vietnam.â In Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia, edited by Shyam Saran, 107â127. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tripati, Sila. 2017. âSeafaring Archaeology of the East Coast of India and Southeast Asia during the Early Historical Period.â Ancient Asia 8(7): 1â22.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 725 | 725 | 30 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 41 | 41 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 106 | 106 | 0 |
Why did so many Southeast Asian kingdoms choose cremation as a royal rite? Fire rituals werenât simply imported from India. This paper examines how the rituals were reshaped by already established local beliefs that valued cremation. Sites like Sa Huỳnh and Ban Non Wat show that fire burials were current long before Indian religions arrived in the region. Later, Hindu and Buddhist cremation rites were not blindly copied but put to use by monarchs in Funan, Champa, Srivijaya, and Majapahit to broadcast the rulersâ sacred kingship. Religious specialists like Brahmins and monks helped introduce these ideas, but local people made them their own. Meanwhile, regions like northern Vietnam kept their Confucian burial traditions. This paper argues that cremation became part of a political and spiritual language, not because of cultural domination, but because it resonated with existing ways of thinking about death, power, and ancestry.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 725 | 725 | 30 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 41 | 41 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 106 | 106 | 0 |