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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0062 00119

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/627823

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Vat Manorom Sattharam

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Suttanta doctrine

Copyist:

Anonymous

Copying date in native date:

CS 1307, BE 2487, a kot san year

Copying date in Gregorian:

1944

Place of copying:

Luang Prabang

Script:

Tham Lao

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

54.2 x 4.3 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

54.2 x 4.3 cm

Text block dimension:

47.0 x 4.0 cm

Number of pages:

18 pages

Number of blank pages:

2 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

The content tells the fifteenth Buddhist blessing that is to be generous and charitable and leads to the way of good actions or the wholesome course of actions including three bodily actions, four verbal actions, and three mental actions. The three bodily actions consist of abstention from killing, abstention from taking what is given, and abstention from sexual misconduct. The four verbal actions consist of abstention from false speech, abstention from harsh speech, abstention from vain talk or gossip. The three mental actions consist of non-covetousness, non-ill will, and right view.

Colophon:

See no. Ds 0062 00122

Other notes:

This manuscript is the fourth fascicle of a series of 7 manuscripts entitled Maṅgala Sutta bearing DS 0062 00116 – 00122.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ມຸງຄຸນສູດ (ຜູກ 4)

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Maṅgala Sutta (phuk 4)

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Discourse on blessings (fascicle 4)

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Lao; Pali