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:
51.1 x 4.9 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
51.1 x 4.9 cm
Text block dimension:
46.5 x 4.0 cm
Number of pages:
28 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
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 thammang baikhao Nipphānnasūt lae nāmmatsa Nān Sao rikkhitta tae pī moeng sai düan chiang khün 11 kham mü van chan thai lae.
Lānthī 16 nā 1: Sadet yām tae sū thiangvan nan lae. Pī moeng sai düan chiang khün 11 kham mü van 2 thai lae.
Lānthī 16 nā 2: Batnī mūnla satthā māi mī Maethao Ī Chansaeng 2 khon phua mia kὁ mā khonkhwāi hā dai yang potakka bailān mā chāng thān taemkhian thammang Nipphānnasūt phūk 1 laeo. Kὁ doem phüa chak uthitsa suanbun suanthān müa hā buttā phū aniccakam pai sū palalok phāinā nāmmapayāti süvā Ī Sī nan khὁhü nābun nam hὁt chòt thüng thae dae bun hoei. Khὁhü thevabut nam hā khὁhü thevadā nam hὁt khan hὁt müa sao khὁhü dai kin ngāi khanvā hὁt mü swāi khὁhü dai nung süaphā khanvā hὁt müa lā khὁhü dai āpnam katham bun hüdai phon thīyāk hü dai phāk thīphān thae dae bun hoei.
Lānthī 17 nā 2: Nāthap phāipāi thammang Nipphānnasūt phūk diao nī lae satthā Maethao Ī Chansaeng 2 phua mia uthitsa thān pai hā lūk phū süvā Ī Sī lae.