Dear List Members;
"Does anyone know what the oldest surviving Pali manuscript is, and
where it is located now?"
If you're interested in early Pali inscriptions, you'll want to check out this
online paper on "Ye Dhammaa" Dvaravati inscriptions in Pallava script in
Thailand dated palaeographically to 600-800 AD, if I remember correctly:
Traces of the Dharma, Peter Skilling Bulletin de l'École française
d'Extrême-Orient Year 2003 Volume 90 Issue 90-91 pp. 273-287
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/befeo_0336-
1519_2003_num_90_1_3615?_Prescripts_Search_isPortletOuvrage=false
Or just goto:
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/revue/befeo
And look for the 2003 article by Peter Skilling.
With metta,
Jon Fernquest