Inside Wat Si Chum are 86 inscribed stone reliefs depicting jatakas, former lives of Gotama Buddha. This book presents the latest evidence and porposes new interpretations. It offers the first-ever English translation of the inscriptions, photographs of the reliefs supplemented by 19th century jataka paintings from Wat Khrua Wan, Bangkok, essys on all aspects of the temple and a discussion of the significance of jataks in international Buddhist literature, art and ideology.--Back cover

• Illustrating the lives of the Bodhisatta at Wat Si Chum Pattaratorn Chirapravati
• Pierre Pichard
• Peter Skilling
• Peter Skilling
• Peter Skilling, Prapod Assavavirulhakarn and Santi Pakdeekham The mondop at Wat Si Chum: new perspectives Narrative, art and ideology: Jatakas from India to Sukhothai Illustrating the jatakas: Wat Si Chum, Wat Khrua Wan, and the Ananda Temple compared Tha jataka engravings of Wat Si Chum and their inscriptions