Re: Earliest Pali Inscriptions or manuscripts

Dear Piya Tan;

Thanks for the info about that conference. Peter Skilling lead a
graduate student conference at Chulalongkorn University last week
also. Wanted to go but didn't know where to find the info.

There is also a research group that has little mini conferences at
Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist University that has relocated up to
Ayutthaya. No longer at Sanam Luang. This was announced on Justin
McDaniels Thai Studies list at UC Riverside.

There is also this talk coming up:

Kamma and Control: The Pagodas of Yangon, Old and New
By: Dr. Donald M. Stadtner
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, Time: 7:30 p.m, Place: The Siam Society

Donald also just published a pretty fascinating study of the stories
associated with hair relics at Kyaik-ti-yo Pagoda in Burma (the one
balancing/hanging on a rock). The paper traces the stories from the
times when they were in Pali and in the monastery to the times when
they left the monastery and grew folktale dimensions to them, a lot
remains to be done on this sort of thing:
http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/volume6/SBBR6-2008Stadtner.pdf

BTW Southeast Asian palaeography (development of scripts from Indian
scripts in Buddhist inscriptions) is a wide open field, almost
untouched, especially Mon and Burmese.

With metta,
Jon Fernquest

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan <dharmafarer@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Jon, for Peter's interesting article.
>
> We have just finished the 3-day ISEAS "Buddhism Across Asia"
conference at
> the Orchard Hotel today, where Peter Skilling, Prapod
Assavavirulhakarn and
> a galaxy of well known scholars presented papers. The Nobel laureate
Amartya
> Sen gave the closing address.
>
> With metta,
>
> Piya Tan
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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