Collection of photographs at Vat Saen Sukharam, Luang Prabang, Laos, established by Phra Khamchan Virachitto, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam - Series B [1926-2007]
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4,003 prints. This is the second part of the much larger collection. The first 5,996 photographs were identified and digitised in EAP 177. The originals were found in cabinets in the Kuti (living quarters) of Phra Khamchan Virachitto at Vat Saen Sukharam. Annotations and inscriptions: Lao, Pal...
Chanting book of Vat Saen Sukharam, published by Ajan Khamvone Boulyaphone, a pupil of Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thela, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam and offered to Pha Khamchan. This book belongs to a novice of Vat Saen. Photographs Pha Oun Kham Aggapanyo (Joy Suksavatdy), a pupil of Pha Khamcha...
Dhamma Book named Khihipatibat (Practices or codes of morality for lay people), published by Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thela, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam for a distribution as Dhamma-gifts on his 76th Birthday celebration on Tuesday, 10th day of the waxing moon of the 11th lunar month B.E. 2539...
Collection of photographs at Vat Saen Sukharam, Luang Prabang, Laos, established by Phra Khamchan Virachitto, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam - Series negatives and transparencies [1893-2006]
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Scans 2911 negatives and transparencies. Original material consists of: silver gelatine film and glass plate negatives, chromogenic negatives, chromogenic transparencies, other/unknown
The films hold mostly photographs of the Theravada Buddhist world of Laos and Luang Prabang, taken by monks or Buddhist laypeople since the 1850s, with a small number of images that are reproductions of earlier prints or paintings. A small number of texts, certificates, or documents are also pre...
The stone inscription of the Luang Phor Sodhon in Chaochiengchao province,Pha Khamchan Vrachitta Maha Thela, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam taking his pupil on tour to Thailand in 1968. Original material consists of: silver gelatine film negative