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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0056 00199

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/624334

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Vat Pak Chaek Monastery

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Nan Inthapanya

Subject matter:

Suttanta Doctrine

Copyist:

Phò Nan Nò and Mae Nan Nò

Copying date in native date:

ປີ ກົດເສັດ

Copying date in Gregorian:

AD 1970

Place of copying:

Nunsavat village, Luang Prabang

Script:

Tham Lue

Writing support:

Palm-Leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

52.2 x 4.9 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

52.2 x 4.9 cm

Text block dimension:

45.5 x 4.3 cm

Number of pages:

34 pages

Number of blank pages:

1 page

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:

Lānthī 1 nā 1: Māi nāthap phāikhao thammang Nipphānnasūt mī 1 phūk diao nī lae bailān mī 17 bai thang nāthap lae. Khὁhü bun upatham khamsū phūkhā an dai taemkhian thammang khamsὁn Nipphānnasūt nī hü dai thüng suk 3 pakān mī nipphān pen thī laeo khanὁi dae bun hoei. Mak 1, phon 1, nipphān 1. Nibbāna paccayo hontu no niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ paramaṃ sukkhaṃ yācāmi. Phūkhian maen Nān Intha Phὁ Ī Nāng Yāt khian tae pī moeng vāi yū Bān Nūn tīn Phūsuang nan lae than heoi. Lānthī 16 nā 2: Sadet laeo yām vāi thāi kae lae rikkhitta attano Nān Inthapanyā taemkhian tae pī kot set pī dai taek pai yū Bān Nūn nai Nam Khān tīn Phūsuang nan lae. Lānthī 17 nā 1: Batni mūnla satthā māi mī Phὁ Nān Nὁ Mae Nān Nὁ 2 khā phua mia kὁ mā hā dai yang potakka bailān mā taemkhian yang thammang Nipphānnasūt phūk 1, kὁ doem phüa chak uthitsa suanbun suanthān an nī pai hā yang buttā an anitcharakam pai sū paralok phāinā nāmma panyāti süvā Nān Nὁ Nān Nanthiyo nan kὁ khὁhü thevabut nam hā khὁhü thevadā nam hὁt hü dai

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ນິພານນະສູດ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Nibbāna Sutta

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Discourse on Nibbāna

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Lue; Pali