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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0011 00487
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/537115
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Luang Prabang
Name of collection:
Vat Maha That Rasabovoravihan
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Pha (Monk) Phui Thiracitto from Vat Maha That Monastery
Subject matter:
Ānisaṃsa (merit)
Copyist:
Pha (Monk) Phui Thiracitto from Vat Maha That Monastery
Copying date in native date:
ຂຶ້ນ 4 ຄໍ່າ ວັນອາທຶດ ເດືອນຈຽງ ພຸດທະສັງກາດ 2511 ຕົວ ປີເປິກສັນ ຄ.ສ. 1968
Copying date in Gregorian:
1968 December 12
Place of copying:
Vat Maha That, Luang Prabang
Script:
Tham Lao
Writing support:
Palm-leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
No
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
4.5 x 50.4 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
4.5 x 50.4 cm
Text block dimension:
4.4 x 46.5 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:
When Buddha was staying at Isipatana Marugadayavana in Varanasi, he talked about a poor man who was faithful and saw other people making merit (offerings) but he did not have anything to do so. One day he dug in the soil and made a stupa. He decorated the stupa with ornaments in order to worship the Triple Gem. Then he and his wife also offered food to monks. After their death, the merit from making the stupa supported them to be born as deities in the heaven with a castle and a lifespan for 84,000 years.
Colophon:
Folio 8 on the recto side: In BE 2511, a poek san year, on the fourth day of the waning moon of the first [lunar] month, Sunday, corresponding with 24th November, Christian Era 1968, Pha Phui Thiracitta Thera, the abbot of Vat Pha Maha That Rajabovoravihan, and the Chao Khana Tasaeng Tai (the southern ecclesiastical head of the sub-district), Luang Prabang, were the sponsor and the scribe of the making of this manuscript to prolong the life of the Teachings of the Buddha to last until the end of 5000 years. Nibbāna hotu no (May this be a condition for us to reach Nirvana).

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ສະຫຼອງເຈດີ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Salòng Cedī
Item 1 - Title in English script:
The merit derived from building a stupa
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Pali, Lao
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