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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0056 00018

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/624153

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Vat Pak Chaek Monastery

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Subject matter:

Suttanta Doctrine

Begin Year Date:

1900

End Year Date:

2000

Place of copying:

Pak Chaek village, Pak U district, Luang Prabang province

Script:

Tham Lue

Writing support:

Palm-Leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

52.2 x 4.8 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

52.2 x 4.8 cm

Text block dimension:

47.5 x 4.0 cm

Number of pages:

30 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

The Buddha delivered this Nibbāna Sutta to his followers while staying at the Jetavanna Monastery in Savatthi. The content describes about the making of merit including alms-giving, observing precepts, listening to Dhamma preaching, and meditating. In there, the observing precepts is the initial way to enter Nirvana. Only giving alms but not observing precepts, after dead, can be born as a ghost like the story of a couple millionaires. The result of sponsoring the making of, or writing this manuscript and offering it to the Sangha can support the ghosts to be born in a good place in heavens.

Colophon:

ລານທີ່ 15 ໜ້າ 1: ຜູ້ຂ້າປາຖະໜາເອົາພະຫຍາສັບພັນຍູພະພຸດທະເຈົ້າສິ່ງດຽວແລ້ວແລ. Lānthī 15 nā 1: Phūkhā pāthanā ao payāsabbhanyū phaphutthachao singdiao laeolae.

Other notes:

Folio 5 has holes on the right margin, which affect the text.