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:
52.4 x 5.1 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
52.4 x 5.1 cm
Text block dimension:
47.5 x 4.3 cm
Number of pages:
38 pages
Number of blank pages:
1 page
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 18 nā 2: Sadet laeo yām müa 4 muang laeng mūnla satthā sāo Pīnkaeo phὁm dὁi mae lae mae yā nὁng thang 2 mī sāo Be lae sāo Chanphaeng phὁm dὁi phī nὁng thangmuan kὁ mā leng hen yang sāmīkka ton pen phua süvā Ai Khamtan an dai anicca pai sü palalok büangnā kὁ khὁ hai phon thiyāk khὁhü dai phāk thiphān khὁhü dai khao sū viangkaeo an kāo laeo süvā nelaphān nan kὁ khā lae pī tὁ chai sangkāt dai 2515 tua düan 5 haem 3 kham kὁng kap van phahat van nὁk kāp sī lae phū ritchanā khian maen phikkhu Ongkham Inthapanyā dὁi ton aiang lae Phὁ sao Chanphaeng Bān Fāi phi uppayok mā tang thinthān yū Bān Suan mī thuk aniccaṃ aniccā maranaṃ khwām thao kae chep tāi lok bὁ thiang lae phὁ thanglāi hoei.