Digital images of Charākrui´ tasī˝ kyaṃ. Date(s): unknown. Creator(s): Anonymous. Description: treatise on meditation. Medium of original material: parabaik (accordion-folded paper manuscripts). Language: Burmese; Shan.
Digital images of Che˝ kyam‘˝. Date(s): unknown. Creator(s): Anonymous. Description: medicinal formula. Medium of original material: parabaik (accordion-folded paper manuscripts). Language: Burmese.
Paper manuscripts housed at the Kuti abode of Pha Khamchan Virachitto
Scope & Content:
The collection of paper manuscripts (mostly mullberry or sa paper, in a few cases also modern industrial paper) is with 72 volumes quite large. Most of these volumes are made leporello style, are either made of greyish paper and are written in black ink or are made of blackened paper and then wri...
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.
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 notebook or a single-text manuscript. 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. Covers added by the project team. Owner(s) of original material: Ūʺ Sujāta.
Single-text manuscript 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.
Multiple-text manuscript featuring three salutation texts used in routine liturgical services. Might have been intended for memorization by schoolboys and novices. Extent and format of original material: 4 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Complete, right margin o...
Multiple-text manuscript that might have been intended as a collection of materials to consult for the purposes of preaching. Extent and format of original material: 4 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Complete. Covers added by the project team.
Multi-text manuscript containing didactic works memorized by schoolboys and novices. Extent and format of original material: 3 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Might be incomplete. Covers added by the project team.