Temples of Gold: Seven Centuries of Thai Buddhist Paintings by Santi Leksukhum The exuberant paintings in this book come from the temples of Thailand, and vividly depict mythological and everyday scenes taken from ancient Buddhist texts. Sankti Leksukhum's text explores the connections between the magnificent texts and images, examining how their distinctive style developed from the arrival of Buddhism in Thailand in the fourteenth century to the incorporation of Western techniques into the nineteenth century. CL, ISBN: 0807614769 $85.00 (Can: $127.00)