Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935375653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903224
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3537565

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Summary

Khandakas (rules of conduct and ritual readings for Theravada Buddhist monks) copied in a late 19th- or early 20th-century manuscript probably commissioned to be presented to a monastery when a son entered the novitiate or was ordained as a monk. Leaves of folded cloth with red lacquer and silver leaf and black lacquered lettering in 6 lines per leaf. Covers of wood with beveled edges, decorated with gold and red lacquer.

Notes

• Formerly cataloged and shelved as Ms. Indic 6.
   

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Provenance

• Purchased, 2004.
   

Subjects topical

• Buddhism--Rituals--Texts
• Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)

Genres

• Manuscripts, Pali--19th century
• Manuscripts, Pali--20th century
• Manuscripts, Burmese--19th century
• Manuscripts, Burmese--20th century
• Manuscripts--Burma--19th century
• Manuscripts--Burma--20th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

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