Speaker: Professor Sachchidanand Sahai, Adviser to Angkor Archaeological Park and Preah Vihear under the Royal Government of Cambodia. Author of the recently published book Bhadreshvara: A Forgotten Form of Shiva in India and Southeast Asia
Chief Guest: Dr. Y. Sudershan Rao, Chairman, ICHR
Chair:
Professor Sahai will present the temple art and architecture of Southeast Asia on the basis of his past ten years of field work in the region. Intricately designed world heritage temples of My-s’on (Vietnam), Wat Phu (Laos), Angkor and Preah Vihear and the temple region of Prambanan in Indonesia will be presented as an inter-linked chain of temples, responsible for cultural cohesion between India and Southeast Asia. This presentation will take you through Southeast Asia, along its rivers and mountain chains to appreciate millennia of vibrant artistic traditions and see for the first time Bhadreshvara (Shiva), the Lord of the Mekong-Ganga and of the Indian Ocean
(Collaboration: Indian Council for Historical Research)
Event starts on Monday, 06 June 2016 at 05:30 hrs
