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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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Seya
March 9, 2014 at 10:49 AM
That's fascinating! A really great item. =)
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Museum Anthropologist
March 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM
I agree!
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That's fascinating! A really great item. =)
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