The Charas College [1] is a collection in the library of the Center for the Study of Southeast Asia, Kyoto University . The collection includes the largest collection of cremation volumes outside Thailand , nangsue ngan sop [2] or nangsii anuson ngznsop [3] , books created on the occasion of cremation by noble Thais [2] . "Cremation Tom" contains a biography of the deceased and the history of his family, as well as texts of various genres. The “cremation tom” of the famous departed are published in the form of books or brochures. Due to the wealth of information, “cremation volumes” are used to study history [4] , literature [3] , ethnography [3] .
The collection was donated to the library of Kyoto University by Charas Pikul, a former member of the administration of Thailand [5] . The collection includes 9,000 volumes, of which 4,000 are “cremation volumes”. Each volume contains several different texts; The first four parts of the detailed description of these texts were published in 2006–2012 [6] [7] [8] [9] . The 191 books described by Kyriyanant in 2012 [9] contain 784 texts and information about 226 departed (the number of deceased exceeds the number of books, since several departed could be cremated together). The largest group of the departed - members of the administration (80) and the royal family (43) [9] . The most popular themes among 784 texts are religion (108) and law (100); Also in the collection there are texts about chess and canning [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Sivaraks Marasri. Banninukrom nangsii EhEk khong ndi Charas Phiqun, Hong Samut Szin, Mahaiwitthaydlai Kiawtd. Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. - Kyoto , Japan : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1989.
- ↑ 1 2 Irene Stengs. Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class (Eng.) . - NUS Press, 2009. - p. 264. - 316 p. - ISBN 9789971694296 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Grant A. Olsen. Thai Cremation Volumes: A Genre of Literature : [ eng ] // Asian Folklore Studies: Journal. - 1992. - T. 51. - p. 279-294. - ISSN 0385-2342 .
- ↑ John E. Butler, Brad Brown and Wai Chamornmarn. Guanxi and the Dynamics of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurial Behavior in Southeast Asia: [ eng ] / JT Li, Anne S. Tsui, Elizabeth Weldon. - Macmillan Press / St Martin's Press, 1999. - Vol. Management and Organizations in the Chinese Context. - p. 245-268. - ISBN 0–333–74411 – X.
- ↑ Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Library. Special Collections . The appeal date is August 25, 2015.
- ↑ Nawarat Panyangam. I // Articles of the Thai Cremation School of Information Technology, Kyoto University. - 2006.
- ↑ Surithong Srisa-ard. II Articles of Thai Cremation, Kyoto University. - 2007.
- ↑ Jiraphan Intarasiripong. III // Articles of the International School for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. - 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Pranee Kiriyanant. IV // Articles of the Southeast Asian Studies Library, Kyoto University . - The Center for Southeast Asian Studies Library Kyoto University, 2012. - ISBN 978-4-906332-05-2 .