The Legend of Queen Cāma - Bodhiraṃsi's Cāmadevīvaṃsa, a Translation and Commentary

An English translation and a commentary on the chronicle of Queen Cama, an important but neglected female monarch who founded a dynasty in Northern Thailand.

About the author

Donald K. Swearer is Charles & Harriet Cox McDowell Professor of Religion, Swarthmore College. He has written and edited many books, among them The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia and Me and Mine: Selected Essays of Bikkhu Buddhadasa, both published by SUNY Press. Sommai Premchit is a Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, and an Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology. He is coauthor of The Lan Na Twelve-Month Traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Sommai Premchit, Donald K Swearer, Donald K. Swearer
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 3
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.1998
• EAN: 9780791437766
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3776-6
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Series: Suny Buddhist Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions