Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Buddhist prayer on palm leaf

I was researching my items and came across this pretty interesting article on the process of creating palm-leaf sutras(one of my items is a Buddhist prayer on a palm leaf).

Dai (Thai) people create "civilization on palm leaves"

Here are some pictures from the article:







Here's what the engraved Buddhist prayer from the Beardsley collection looks like up close:



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