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Single-text illustrated manuscript containing Vinaya materials. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Incomplete. Covers added by the project team.
Illustrated manual on the types of sīmā, boundaries within which Buddhist monks perform ordinations and other ritual acts. Extent and format of original material: Fragments of 8 folios. Physical characteristics: Incomplete, foliation on all fragments (except folio ke) lost, all folios damaged.
Single-text manuscript containing a work on magic. One stray folio from a different manuscript. Extent and format of original material: 3 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Complete. Wooden covers decorated with inlay on the upper side and painted with black pigmen...
A collection of gāthās, mantras, and yantras with versified instructions on their use. The title and scope of this collection is similar to the work transmitted in manuscript WL-HL-KMT 017.1, however, the text is different from the latter. Extent and format of original material: 1 fascicle of 4...
Single folio khi (numbered 45) from a different (medical) manuscript. Has no relationship with WL-HL-NKB 252 and 253 as both these mss have wider folios. Also unrelated to WL-HL-NKB 201 as the latter starts with folio ghaṃ. Theoretically, might have belonged to now missing fascicule 1 of WL-HL-N...
Single-text manuscript containing a medical work. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Red pigment decoration on the sides. Incomplete. Wooden covers painted with black pigment on the upper side and underside, edges painted w...
A medical work written in response to questions raised by King Myedu-min (r. 1763-1776). The author was born in Khveʺ coṅʻʹ village and lived in Sa cuiʺ village, he also sponsored a construction of a stupa or a temple. Completed on July 26, 1771. Extent and format of original material: 1 fascic...