Digital images of Khvan‘ samlo‘ū pyaññ‘. Date(s): unknown. Creator(s): Anonymous. Description: elucidation of the Suttam; Suttan‘. Medium of original material: parabaik (accordion-folded paper manuscripts). Language: Pa’O
The whole collection consists of palm-leaf manuscripts (762) and paper manuscripts (87) kept at four different buildings/repositeries. The whole collection of manuscripts is under the responsibility of the monastery, along with the Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization, Luang Prabang province. The...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese, Khun, Lao, Pali, Tai languages, Thai, and Undetermined
The collection of palm-leaf and leporello manuscripts deposited at the Ññoṅʻ kuiʺ paṅʻ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Nyaung-ko-bin-kyaung) in Halin village includes a sizeable corpus of Pāli and bilingual (Pāli and Burmese) Buddhist texts copied in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to...
Single-text manuscript containing a work on meditation. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Gilded folios with red pigment band in the middle. Incomplete. Uninscribed folios serve as covers.
A bilingual translation of a canonical Buddhist sutta that forms a part of the Dīgha-nikāya collection. This discourse discusses meditation technics and was frequently transmitted both in Pāli and in bilingual translations as a separate text/manuscript. The liturgical and curricular uses of Mahā...
Single-text manuscript or a notebook containing a Vinaya text. Custodial history: Has a label assumed to be made by Ūʺ Nāga. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Complete. Has no covers.
A vernacular collection of Vinaya-related lists and categories. A lack of experience of the scribal hand suggest that the manuscript was copied by a novice. Extent and format of original material: 1 fascicle of 6 inscribed folios.
Single-text manuscript that originally was a part of a larger bundle that contained other textual units (other parts are now missing). Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Red pigment decoration on the sides. Complete, good condition. Good handw...