Buddhist manuscript of the Kammavaca
Myanmar (Burma)
18th century
Ivory
Himavati donation in 1990
Notice
A questionnaire used for the ordination of the monks, this luxurious manuscript in the Pāli language is written in square Burmese characters (“tamarind seeds”). It is one of the very first Buddhist texts to be translated into a Western language, because it was published in English as early as 1799.
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