In the forty-five years the Buddha spent traversing northern India centuries before the common era, he shared his wisdom with everyone from beggar women to kings. Hundreds of his discourses, or su…
Pāli and vernacular literature transmitted in central and northern Siam = Vararajhkarar Pālī leeḥ chapãp palee nai bhāg kalāṅ leeḥ bhāg henǖa khaṅ Sayām"."
Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam is a manual of Pali literature. It gives the titles of 529 texts, the majority inscribed on palm-leaf, dealing with Buddhism and ancillary topics such as…
Manuscripts and inscriptions, languages and letters --rnLanguage and writing in South-East Asia and in Sukhothai --rnPieces in the puzzle : Sanskrit literature in pre-modern Siam --rnThe place of S…
The diffusion of religious thought in Buddhist Asia has been marked by new modes of expression. Sometimes this has meant textual translation, as highlighted in chapters about Chinese and Japanese B…
Wat Si Chum is unique among Sukhothai temples. Inside, lining the ceiling of a dark and narrow staircase leading to the open roof, are 86 inscribed stone reliefs depicting jatakas, the former lives…
volume one. The birth story of Temiya, or of the dumb cripple ; The (great) birth story of Janaka ; The birth story of golden Sāma ; The birth story of Nemi ; The birth story of Mahosadha, or of …