Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Suvannabhūmi: Facts of Linguistic and Cultural Literary Partnership Between India and Thailand

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
India-Thailand Cultural Interactions

  • 366 Accesses

Abstract

India and Siam have long drawn linguistic and cultural interaction since the days of Suvannabhūmi or ‘the land of gold’. The spread of Buddhism from India, as an adjunct of expansion of ‘Indianism’, has attained greater significance regarding religio-social, artistic, and political developments. Pali language becomes the religious and semi-secular language of Thailand. Buddhist culture has left its permanent mark on the socio-religious obligation, literary activities, etc. Pali has been utilized mainly for ecclesiastical purposes, especially in Pali literature. Many religious texts regarding Theravada Buddhism such as Jataka and Tipitaka, have been written in Pali. The evidences of cultural contacts establishing in Thai language have been pronounced by the use of words in languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, and Cambodian origins. All these phenomena display multiple facets of cultural partnership between India and Thailand.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    Abhidhamma is Buddha’s Higher Doctrine dealing with philosophy and psychological ethics. Later on, it was incorporated in the Tipitaka as the third Pitaka with the same title.

References

  • Author. 1909. Name of article. Journal of the Siam Society, 1–68.

    Google Scholar 

  • Barua, Dipak Kumar. 1969. Vihāras in Ancient India: A Survey of Buddhist Monasteries. Calcutta: Indian Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Coedes, G.C. 1924. Receuildes Inscriptions du Siam. Bangkok: Bangkok Times Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Copleston, R.S. 1892. Buddhism: Primitive Present in Magadha and Ceylon. London: Longman Green.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dutt, Sukumar. 1966. Buddhism in South-East Asia. Bombay: Bhaktkal Books International

    Google Scholar 

  • De, Goluldas. 1955. Democracy in Early Buddhist Saṃgha. Calcutta: Calcutta University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eliot, Charles. 1921. Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch. Vol. 3. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

    Google Scholar 

  • Essays on Cultural Thailand. 1997. Popular Buddhism in Siam. Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok: Thailand National Culture Commission.

    Google Scholar 

  • Essays on Cultural Thailand. 1992, 1997. Thailand National Culture Commission, Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok.

    Google Scholar 

  • Etiquette, Thai. 1997. Thailand National Culture Commission. Royal Thai Government, Bangkok: Ministry of Education.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fournereau, Lucien. 1895. Le Siam Ancien. Vol. 1.5.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kongkananda, Manote. 1996. Folk Crafts in Thailand: A Collection and Study of Folk Crafts in Thailand. Wickerwork in Central Provinces. The National Committee on Culture, Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maintained, Chaleo: Funeral Rites and Customs of Thailand. (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  • Mahāvagga, VII, I, 6; Vinaya Texts, pt. II, p. 151.

    Google Scholar 

  • May, Raginald. 1962. The Culture South-East Asia: The Heritage of India. Delhi: National Book Trust.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sivaraksa, ArjanSulak. 1999, September 16. Buddhism with a Small ‘b’. The Times of India, Kolkata, p. 12 (Q & A).

    Google Scholar 

  • Saddhātissa, Hammalawa. 1993. Pali Literature of South-East Asia. Singapore: Singapore Buddhist Meditation Centre.

    Google Scholar 

  • Singkham, Somyot. 1997. PoiSang Long: Religio-Cultural Fair of Mae Hang Song Province. Thai Customs and Beliefs, 23–27. Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok: Thailand National Culture Commission.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thai Customs and Beliefs. Thailand National Culture Commission, Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok, 57–62.

    Google Scholar 

  • The National Artists, 1997. 1998. Thailand National Culture Commission, Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tagore, Rabindranath. (year of publication). To Siam, and Farewell to Siam, Boundless Sky. Calcutta: Visva Bharati, 437–438.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pali Language and Literature, University of Calcutta, Block EE, No. 80, Flat 2A, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Dipak Kumar Barua

Authors
  1. Dipak Kumar Barua
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Dipak Kumar Barua .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Lipi Ghosh

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Barua, D.K. (2017). Suvannabhūmi: Facts of Linguistic and Cultural Literary Partnership Between India and Thailand. In: Ghosh, L. (eds) India-Thailand Cultural Interactions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3854-9_8

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3854-9_8

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore

  • Print ISBN: 978-981-10-3853-2

  • Online ISBN: 978-981-10-3854-9

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation