Phò Ī Baeng (father of Ms. Baeng) together with his wife
Subject matter:
Suttanta Doctrine
Copyist:
Inthapanya (Phò Ī Nang Yat)
Copying date in native date:
ປີ ກົດເສັດ ສັງກາດໄດ້ 1333 ຕົວ, ພໍສໍ 2513, ປີ 1970
Copying date in Gregorian:
AD 1970
Place of copying:
Nunsavat village, Luang Prabang district, Luang Prabang province
Script:
Tham Lue
Writing support:
Palm-Leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
51.9 x 4.8 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
51.9 x 4.8 cm
Text block dimension:
46.5 x 3.6 cm
Number of pages:
32 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 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:
Lānthī 1 nā 1: Batnī Phὁ Ī Baeng 2 khā chao phua mia kὁ mā khonkhwāi hā dai yang thammang Nipphānnasūt phūk 1 kap phāsāt lang 1 kὁ doem phüa chak uthitsa suanbun suanthān an nī müa hā yang lān sāi süvā Mai Hae nan hü hὁt chὁt thüng hü dai phὁn thīyāk hü dai phāk thīphān hü dai thüng suk 3 pakān thae dae bun hoei.
Nāthap phāikhao thammang Nīpphānnasūt lae.
Bailān mī sip 4 bai thang nāthap lae.
Lānthī 16 nā 2: Thān thwāi Ai Mai Hae noe thammang Nipphānnasūt phūk nī nā thān thanglāi thangmuan hoei laeo lae.
Nāthap phāipāi thammang Nipphānnasūt lae.
Rikkhitta Inthapanyā Phὁ Ī Nāng Yāt khian tae pī kὁt set pī yū Bān Nūn tīn Phūsuang nan lae. Rikkhitta dὁi ton aiang khā lae pī nan sangkāt dai 1333 tua phὁ sὁ 2513 pī 1970 nan lae.