Burmese palm leaf Buddhist book, Pe Sar - Myanmar - 19th centur

Burmese palm leaf manuscript Pe Sar. 19th century

Gilded from the outside and placed between bevelled wooden binding bords, these manuscripts were made in Mandalay in the 19th century and contain several hundreds palm leafs of precisely incised discrete
Buddhist texst on a variety of topics.

The Buddhist canonical scriptures are called Tpitaka and include monastic codes of diciple, sermons and
stories with doctrinal content and texst with philosophical speculations, written in the Pali language in the
late 1st century CE in Sri Lanka.

Mandalay was and still is Burma's cultural and religious center and was in the 19th century the largest exporter of Buddhist manuscripts in the Pali language.



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