This manuscript contain alludings to ancestors seeking their blessings. The ancestors are offered chickens and it is believed that these chickens die when mantras from this manuscript are recited.
This manuscript contain alludings to ancestors seeking their blessings. The ancestors are offered chickens and it is believed that these chickens die when mantras from this manuscript are recited.
The four leporelleo-style mulberry paper manuscripts contain secular texts dealng with astrology and magic formulas. Texts of these genres are preferrably written on mulberry paper, not palm-leaf.
The folded mulberry paper manuscript is written in Tai Lue language and script with black ink. The front and back covers are decorated with flower symbols. The manuscript is partly damaged with parts of the text on several pages missing. The text is about many topics that belong to the tradition-...
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
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...
This multiple-text manuscript deals with several topics, such as astrology, magic formulas, introduction into method how to sit properly during meditation, and traditional medicine. 60 folios
This multiple-text manuscript ( written on blackened khòi paper with white ink) deals with several topics, such as history of the Buddhist religion, the life of thef 5 Buddhas, traditional medicine, magical drawings, Pali passages, notes on astrology, and notes of certain events. 53 folios