Drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Used as a manual for fortune telling and divination....
A series of portraits alternating characters from daily life with others drawn from literature, mainly the Ramakien Illustrations: Illustrated throughout
Mahābuddhagunā มหาพุทธคุณ and other Buddhist texts
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Extracts from the Tipitaka (Tripitaka), with illustrations from The Ten Birth Tales or The Last Ten Jatakas (thotsachat). Fols. 1-3: Abhidhammātikā - Dhammasanganī Fols. 3-4: Vibhanga Fols. 4-5: Dhātukathā Fols. 5-6: Puggalapannati Fols. 6-7: Kathāvatthu Fols. 7-8: Yamaka Fols. 8-9: Mahāp...
Fragment of a manual of a Buddhist mystic (yogāvacara) explaining various stages of purification of the mind by meditation. It sets out the means and plans for practising meditation as an ethical self-training. The manual, in its original complete form, is known to list 112 types of meditation a...