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Pages in category "Burmese Buddhist texts" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
The language of the first three stones is Pali, inscribed using the Burmese script. The rest of the stones are Mon translation. The stones are 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 4 feet 2 inches (1.27 m) wide, and 1-foot-3-inch (0.38 m) thick. They are inscribed on both faces, with 70 lines of text to each face, three letters to an inch (2.54 cm). [1]
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, ... Burmese Buddhist literature developed unique poetic forms from the 1450s onwards, ...
Burmese-Pali manuscript copy of the Buddhist text Mahaniddesa, showing three different types of Burmese script, (top) medium square, (centre) round and (bottom) outline round in red lacquer from the inside of one of the gilded covers. Pali literature is concerned mainly with Theravada Buddhism, of which Pali (IAST: pāl̤i) is the traditional ...
Buddhism in Myanmar-A Short History (PDF). Buddhist Publication Society. ISBN 955-24-0127-5. Charney, Michael W. (2006). Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752–1885. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Romanised Pali: Bode, Mable; Sāsanavaṃsa; 1897 (Pali Text Society), reprint 1996
It is mainly Burmese customary law, tempered with Buddhist justifications, and organized in the mold of the ancient Hindu Manusmriti treatise. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Like the Manusmriti , it is organized in 18 chapters, and justifies the law as given by Manu , "a sort of Moses-cum-Noah figure who was the first law-giver".
Stone tablets inscribed with the Tripiṭaka (and other Buddhist texts) stand upright in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda (kuthodaw means 'royal merit') at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). The work was commissioned by King Mindon as part of his transformation of Mandalay into a royal capital. It was completed in 1868.
The first part focuses on the kings of ancient India and Ceylon, according to Buddhist mythology and history. [1] [2] In 1520, the author added a supplement about the Burmese kings down to 1496. In all, only one-seventh of the treatise concerns the affairs of Burmese kings as it was not intended to be an authoritative chronicle.